Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Malaysia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Royal Family And The Poor to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Misunderstood,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pantytec,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
X-101,
Mantronix,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Spandau Ballet,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Zero Boys,
Alison Limerick,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Camberwell Now,
Eve St. Jones,
Soulsonic Force,
Hasil Adkins,
Unrelated Segments,
Von Mondo,
Suburban Knight,
Radiopuhelimet,
Au Pairs,
Danielle Patucci,
Tommy Roe,
Delta 5,
The Martian,
Johnny Osbourne,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
CMW,
Brothers Johnson,
The Neon Judgement,
Sällskapet,
The Remains,
Theoretical Girls,
Marcia Griffiths,
Aswad,
Shuggie Otis,
Dennis Brown,
Goldenarms,
Amazonics,
Godley & Creme,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pet Shop Boys,
Porter Ricks,
The Skatalites,
Scion,
The Modern Lovers,
Monks,
a-ha,
China Crisis,
The Index,
Roger Hodgson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echospace,
Boogie Down Productions,
Steve Hackett,
David McCallum,
The Fall,
Crime,
The Fire Engines,
Black Flag,
The Searchers,
Nico,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.