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 Taiwan and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Jeff Mills to the grime 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Absolute Body Control,
Newcleus,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Gories,
June Days,
Lou Christie,
Morten Harket,
Monks,
Prince Buster,
The Selecter,
Laurel Aitken,
Niagra,
Connie Case,
The Last Poets,
ABC,
Eddi Front,
Jandek,
Erasure,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Deakin,
Malaria!,
Fad Gadget,
Unwound,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Bar-Kays,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marmalade,
The Real Kids,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Technova,
Dark Day,
Steve Hackett,
the Swans,
Delta 5,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DJ Sneak,
PIL,
The Dead C,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ash Ra Tempel,
CMW,
Hashim,
Ronan,
Man Parrish,
The Five Americans,
Warren Ellis,
Davy DMX,
Black Sheep,
These Immortal Souls,
Junior Murvin,
Jeff Mills,
Lindisfarne,
Television,
La Düsseldorf,
Harpers Bizarre,
Faraquet,
Fear,
Cheater Slicks,
The Residents,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.