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 Greece and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Infiniti 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 B.T. Express. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Hot Snakes,
Newcleus,
Zapp,
Eric Copeland,
Drexciya,
Bobby Byrd,
Aswad,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Babytalk,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ossler,
Bauhaus,
Liliput,
The Cowsills,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Easy Going,
Deadbeat,
Nirvana,
Livin' Joy,
Blancmange,
The Zeros,
Ornette Coleman,
Radio Birdman,
Robert Wyatt,
Index,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mo-Dettes,
Mars,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Japan,
Lungfish,
Joey Negro,
FM Einheit,
The Walker Brothers,
The Seeds,
The Doors,
Delta 5,
Morten Harket,
Janne Schatter,
Half Japanese,
The Black Dice,
The Misunderstood,
Absolute Body Control,
Warsaw,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Modern Lovers,
Smog,
The Index,
Kas Product,
Clear Light,
Cheater Slicks,
The Buckinghams,
T.S.O.L.,
X-101,
Michelle Simonal,
The Durutti Column,
Banda Bassotti,
The Slackers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.