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 Lithuania and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 Fad Gadget to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a PIL record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radio Birdman,
Peter & Gordon,
The Misunderstood,
Marshall Jefferson,
Television Personalities,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Velvet Underground,
Sexual Harrassment,
X-102,
a-ha,
MC5,
The Count Five,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
OOIOO,
The Barracudas,
John Foxx,
Black Pus,
Joe Smooth,
Erykah Badu,
Suicide,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ralphi Rosario,
Supertramp,
Nirvana,
The Blues Magoos,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Neon Judgement,
Ronnie Foster,
Clear Light,
Adolescents,
Quantec,
Kerri Chandler,
Ituana,
Anthony Braxton,
Qualms,
Mars,
Junior Murvin,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Leaves,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Shuggie Otis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hoover,
Half Japanese,
The Cowsills,
Eve St. Jones,
Siglo XX,
Scientists,
Hardrive,
James White and The Blacks,
Nils Olav,
The Detroit Cobras,
Todd Terry,
Maleditus Sound,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Prince Buster,
The Associates,
Crash Course in Science,
The Last Poets,
the Soft Cell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.