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 Lebanon and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Columbus.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 AZ to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
The Raincoats,
Johnny Osbourne,
Quantec,
Rapeman,
Sex Pistols,
The Slackers,
Jeff Lynne,
Youth Brigade,
Judy Mowatt,
Guru Guru,
Qualms,
Deakin,
The Skatalites,
Grey Daturas,
The Searchers,
Gang Gang Dance,
Inner City,
Lalann,
Danielle Patucci,
LL Cool J,
The New Christs,
The Monks,
Cybotron,
Surgeon,
Agitation Free,
Clear Light,
Sonic Youth,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Black Dice,
Marc Almond,
10cc,
Nik Kershaw,
Arcadia,
Roxy Music,
Average White Band,
Bobby Sherman,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Remains,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Black Moon,
Matthew Bourne,
In Retrospect,
The Fuzztones,
Joyce Sims,
Joe Smooth,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lou Christie,
Funky Four + One,
R.M.O.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grauzone,
New Order,
Lee Hazlewood,
Blake Baxter,
James White and The Blacks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Metal Thangz,
Grandmaster Flash,
Neil Young,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.