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 St Lucia and from Manchester.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the disco 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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Reagan Youth,
kango's stein massive,
Kerri Chandler,
Tom Boy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marvin Gaye,
DJ Sneak,
The Monochrome Set,
Ituana,
The Techniques,
Jacob Miller,
Swans,
Janne Schatter,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Slits,
Suicide,
Nick Fraelich,
Nils Olav,
Eli Mardock,
Junior Murvin,
Blossom Toes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Arthur Verocai,
R.M.O.,
Drive Like Jehu,
Absolute Body Control,
Joyce Sims,
Thompson Twins,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Busters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Heaven 17,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joey Negro,
Lalann,
PIL,
Soulsonic Force,
Nirvana,
Tears for Fears,
Grandmaster Flash,
Audionom,
Country Teasers,
The Offenders,
Supertramp,
Peter & Gordon,
Rotary Connection,
Gichy Dan,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Brand Nubian,
Masters at Work,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ultravox,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Q and Not U,
Visage,
Delon & Dalcan,
Mad Mike,
Camouflage,
Adolescents,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.