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 the UAE and from Glasgow.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe 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 Section 25 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Michelle Simonal,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Wire,
The Standells,
The Skatalites,
The Flesh Eaters,
Accadde A,
Swell Maps,
Hasil Adkins,
Morten Harket,
The Doors,
Funkadelic,
Gong,
Slick Rick,
Camouflage,
Yazoo,
Monolake,
DJ Style,
Archie Shepp,
Stetsasonic,
Jerry's Kids,
The Toasters,
Drexciya,
Carl Craig,
Skarface,
The Monks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Evens,
Kenny Larkin,
Urselle,
Lungfish,
Pulsallama,
Mary Jane Girls,
Altered Images,
Bobby Womack,
Cecil Taylor,
Agent Orange,
Mo-Dettes,
Organ,
Althea and Donna,
Flamin' Groovies,
Erykah Badu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Near,
Hardrive,
Theoretical Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
Skaos,
The Residents,
Joy Division,
Public Enemy,
James White and The Blacks,
Excepter,
Bobby Sherman,
Liliput,
Arab on Radar,
Cheater Slicks,
Ten City,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tim Buckley,
The Techniques,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.