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 Bhutan and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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 Royal Family And The Poor,
Ossler,
Rod Modell,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Neu!,
Sonic Youth,
E-Dancer,
The Gories,
Fear,
The Modern Lovers,
Siglo XX,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Sugar Minott,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gabor Szabo,
Big Daddy Kane,
Wolf Eyes,
Bill Near,
Au Pairs,
Tubeway Army,
The Litter,
Cecil Taylor,
K-Klass,
Radiohead,
Unwound,
Desert Stars,
a-ha,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bizarre Inc.,
Todd Terry,
PIL,
The Motions,
Fat Boys,
Alton Ellis,
Mark Hollis,
the Swans,
The Star Department,
Delta 5,
Jeff Mills,
The New Christs,
Whodini,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Inner City,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Reagan Youth,
Kerri Chandler,
B.T. Express,
Bush Tetras,
Audionom,
Danielle Patucci,
Joyce Sims,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cal Tjader,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
David Axelrod,
Warren Ellis,
The Dead C,
John Lydon,
Erasure,
Ultravox,
MC5,
ABBA,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.