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 Austria 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 Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro 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 David Bowie to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Fort Wilson Riot tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kayak,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mission of Burma,
The Count Five,
Juan Atkins,
Bronski Beat,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Remains,
Outsiders,
Public Image Ltd.,
X-101,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eve St. Jones,
Robert Wyatt,
FM Einheit,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Archie Shepp,
The Blues Magoos,
Bauhaus,
Quando Quango,
The Star Department,
Section 25,
Soft Cell,
Half Japanese,
Alphaville,
Pagans,
The Gories,
MDC,
Bizarre Inc.,
Anthony Braxton,
D'Angelo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Brick,
Radio Birdman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
KRS-One,
Stetsasonic,
Judy Mowatt,
PIL,
Avey Tare,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Clear Light,
Duran Duran,
Pulsallama,
Lalann,
Glambeats Corp.,
Marvin Gaye,
Vainqueur,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Unwound,
The Saints,
Ultra Naté,
Tommy Roe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Motions,
Livin' Joy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.