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 Romania and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro 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 Oppenheimer Analysis to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Matthew Bourne,
Unrelated Segments,
Man Eating Sloth,
Hardrive,
Thee Headcoats,
Faust,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Interpol,
Ossler,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Doors,
Scratch Acid,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mission of Burma,
The Kinks,
Ohio Players,
Au Pairs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Hashim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rakim,
Nas,
the Bar-Kays,
Todd Rundgren,
Glenn Branca,
Pere Ubu,
Mr. Review,
Fatback Band,
Clear Light,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Techniques,
Youth Brigade,
Metal Thangz,
Ultravox,
Delon & Dalcan,
Shuggie Otis,
Talk Talk,
Leonard Cohen,
Arthur Verocai,
Wings,
Stereo Dub,
Lindisfarne,
The Misunderstood,
Marvin Gaye,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jimmy McGriff,
Terrestrial Tones,
Negative Approach,
Oblivians,
Moby Grape,
Anthony Braxton,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Howard Jones,
Guru Guru,
The Move,
Little Man,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.