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 Barbados and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Swell Maps to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Scan 7,
New Order,
Max Romeo,
The Invisible,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pere Ubu,
Sarah Menescal,
Lalann,
Hasil Adkins,
Swell Maps,
Essential Logic,
Isaac Hayes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Peter & Gordon,
Dorothy Ashby,
DJ Style,
Johnny Clarke,
Soft Cell,
The Divine Comedy,
Neil Young,
The Misunderstood,
Public Image Ltd.,
Anakelly,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Black Dice,
Quantec,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Associates,
Girls At Our Best!,
Country Teasers,
Carl Craig,
The United States of America,
Thee Headcoats,
The Moody Blues,
The Sonics,
The Walker Brothers,
Malaria!,
The Searchers,
Ultravox,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
PIL,
Popol Vuh,
Ken Boothe,
Robert Görl,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sugar Minott,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mantronix,
Tres Demented,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Metal Thangz,
cv313,
The Trojans,
John Cale,
Skarface,
China Crisis,
Main Source,
The Victims,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lungfish,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.