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 Iceland and from Hong Kong.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 clarinet 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 Slave to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Infiniti,
Cymande,
Spandau Ballet,
OOIOO,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
FM Einheit,
Aswad,
Radio Birdman,
R.M.O.,
Leonard Cohen,
Donald Byrd,
Glenn Branca,
The Star Department,
Sixth Finger,
Ronan,
Goldenarms,
Bush Tetras,
JFA,
Gastr Del Sol,
Au Pairs,
The Monochrome Set,
Ten City,
Neu!,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Busters,
Scion,
Delon & Dalcan,
The United States of America,
the Swans,
Essential Logic,
Derrick May,
Inner City,
Glambeats Corp.,
Freddie Wadling,
Deepchord,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Patti Smith,
Von Mondo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Agitation Free,
The Cure,
Nik Kershaw,
Make Up,
Nirvana,
Magma,
Kerri Chandler,
Organ,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Swell Maps,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alison Limerick,
Ice-T,
Tres Demented,
The Seeds,
Circle Jerks,
The Evens,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.