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 Morocco and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 theremin 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 Shuggie Otis to the jazz 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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All Don Cherry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Television Personalities,
Godley & Creme,
Joe Finger,
Maurizio,
Cecil Taylor,
The Cramps,
Crooked Eye,
Technova,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ralphi Rosario,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sight & Sound,
Can,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Trojans,
The Count Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Minny Pops,
The Litter,
Boredoms,
Liliput,
Curtis Mayfield,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Freddie Wadling,
FM Einheit,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grey Daturas,
Black Pus,
Man Parrish,
The Gun Club,
Sam Rivers,
Glenn Branca,
Kerri Chandler,
Half Japanese,
The Fortunes,
Bizarre Inc.,
Peter and Kerry,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Beau Brummels,
Aloha Tigers,
The Zeros,
The Human League,
Scratch Acid,
Public Enemy,
ABBA,
The Searchers,
The Fugs,
H. Thieme,
Dave Gahan,
Bobby Byrd,
Rhythm & Sound,
Arcadia,
Duran Duran,
The Young Rascals,
Talk Talk,
Donald Byrd,
The J.B.'s,
Arab on Radar,
Leonard Cohen,
Deadbeat,
John Foxx,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.