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 Iran 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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bronski Beat to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Icehouse,
Radiohead,
Marvin Gaye,
Loose Ends,
The Motions,
Brothers Johnson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anakelly,
Slave,
Trumans Water,
John Holt,
Susan Cadogan,
Roxy Music,
Eli Mardock,
LL Cool J,
Amazonics,
One Last Wish,
Con Funk Shun,
Pantaleimon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Fugazi,
Vainqueur,
Archie Shepp,
Au Pairs,
Suicide,
The Fire Engines,
Ossler,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Blackbyrds,
Adolescents,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Raincoats,
The Slackers,
Porter Ricks,
Japan,
ABBA,
Theoretical Girls,
The Cure,
Throbbing Gristle,
Judy Mowatt,
Infiniti,
The Detroit Cobras,
Piero Umiliani,
Dawn Penn,
Kayak,
The Wake,
Tim Buckley,
The Vogues,
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Robert Hood,
Drive Like Jehu,
Junior Murvin,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Tubeway Army,
Metal Thangz,
The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C.
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.