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 Qatar and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Michael McDonald 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 Unrelated Segments to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Birthday Party,
Lalo Schifrin,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Gladiators,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Popol Vuh,
Rod Modell,
Max Romeo,
Scrapy,
Pantaleimon,
Roger Hodgson,
Warsaw,
Terry Callier,
Altered Images,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
X-102,
Dark Day,
Boz Scaggs,
the Soft Cell,
Aloha Tigers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Country Teasers,
L. Decosne,
Scratch Acid,
Fluxion,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Big Daddy Kane,
Television Personalities,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Shuggie Otis,
Delta 5,
Das Ding,
Todd Terry,
The Fall,
Subhumans,
Second Layer,
Sparks,
Crooked Eye,
Josef K,
These Immortal Souls,
Lyres,
The Dirtbombs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lalann,
Cheater Slicks,
Liliput,
Slick Rick,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
Simply Red,
The Smiths,
Zapp,
The Techniques,
Funky Four + One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agent Orange,
Byron Stingily,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.