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 Mexico and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 FM Einheit to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Pop Group,
X-102,
The Gap Band,
Dark Day,
Simply Red,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Agitation Free,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Slackers,
Harmonia,
Donald Byrd,
10cc,
The Tremeloes,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Residents,
Circle Jerks,
Icehouse,
Joy Division,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Groovy Waters,
This Heat,
The Golliwogs,
Sight & Sound,
La Düsseldorf,
Tubeway Army,
Nick Fraelich,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Little Man,
Main Source,
Cal Tjader,
Intrusion,
Lou Christie,
Bob Dylan,
Brothers Johnson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Swans,
Cluster,
Livin' Joy,
Cameo,
Rosa Yemen,
Television,
The Associates,
Ralphi Rosario,
Trumans Water,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Excepter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Germs,
Roger Hodgson,
James White and The Blacks,
Ice-T,
Hot Snakes,
Metal Thangz,
Eddi Front,
Deakin,
Andrew Hill,
The J.B.'s,
Visage,
the Sonics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.