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 Philippines and from Portland.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Radio Birdman to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Unwound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Al Stewart,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Robert Hood,
Derrick May,
The Sonics,
Fluxion,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Birthday Party,
Jacques Brel,
Drive Like Jehu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ultimate Spinach,
Leonard Cohen,
the Bar-Kays,
Gong,
Desert Stars,
The Modern Lovers,
Joensuu 1685,
Minutemen,
Lalo Schifrin,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Simply Red,
Depeche Mode,
Kenny Larkin,
Monolake,
Dennis Brown,
Smog,
Joyce Sims,
The Dead C,
The Standells,
Niagra,
Gang of Four,
the Sonics,
Steve Hackett,
The Detroit Cobras,
X-101,
Negative Approach,
Joey Negro,
Stereo Dub,
Tropical Tobacco,
Arcadia,
Byron Stingily,
Echospace,
Skaos,
Minnie Riperton,
Royal Trux,
Danielle Patucci,
ABC,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Five Americans,
Eden Ahbez,
cv313,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gabor Szabo,
Lou Christie,
Television Personalities,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.