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 Mongolia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ 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 Bronski Beat to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Panda Bear,
Yellowson,
Robert Wyatt,
Warren Ellis,
The Dave Clark Five,
Technova,
The Human League,
Flipper,
the Soft Cell,
Little Man,
The Star Department,
Groovy Waters,
The Residents,
Unwound,
John Lydon,
Morten Harket,
E-Dancer,
Ohio Players,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Duran Duran,
Nico,
Japan,
Laurel Aitken,
Nirvana,
The Fugs,
Boredoms,
Avey Tare,
Derrick May,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kenny Larkin,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nas,
OOIOO,
the Association,
Henry Cow,
Graham Central Station,
Chrome,
Heaven 17,
Talk Talk,
Tomorrow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
China Crisis,
Judy Mowatt,
Hoover,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fluxion,
Bad Manners,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Magma,
Joensuu 1685,
Quantec,
Bluetip,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ornette Coleman,
Popol Vuh,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bootsy Collins,
Newcleus,
Black Bananas,
Gang of Four,
Loose Ends,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.