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 Dominica and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Pole to the jazz 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Aloha Tigers,
The Electric Prunes,
kango's stein massive,
10cc,
The Monks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Los Fastidios,
The New Christs,
Ultra Naté,
UT,
The Five Americans,
The Divine Comedy,
Gichy Dan,
Joey Negro,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Al Stewart,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pagans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Davy DMX,
Nas,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Spoonie Gee,
Isaac Hayes,
Marine Girls,
Eurythmics,
The Stooges,
The Black Dice,
The Wake,
Absolute Body Control,
Wire,
Eric Copeland,
Symarip,
China Crisis,
the Human League,
Maurizio,
Cluster,
Cymande,
The Smiths,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Andrew Hill,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
David Bowie,
E-Dancer,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bluetip,
The Techniques,
The Sound,
Tommy Roe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bootsy Collins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Agitation Free,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ten City,
Infiniti,
the Normal,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rakim,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gang Starr,
Oblivians,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.