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 Estonia and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 T.S.O.L. to the punk 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Silicon Teens,
The Motions,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Angels of Light,
The Tremeloes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jerry's Kids,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Five Americans,
Oneida,
Eric Copeland,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Outsiders,
Fela Kuti,
Gerry Rafferty,
Stiv Bators,
Young Marble Giants,
Wasted Youth,
Buzzcocks,
Accadde A,
Scion,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Human League,
Bobby Womack,
the Sonics,
Heaven 17,
DJ Sneak,
David Bowie,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Gories,
Henry Cow,
Masters at Work,
Niagra,
Gil Scott Heron,
Au Pairs,
Faust,
The Names,
Alice Coltrane,
Kurtis Blow,
Hashim,
Soulsonic Force,
John Holt,
DJ Style,
The Cowsills,
These Immortal Souls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dual Sessions,
A Certain Ratio,
Franke,
Funkadelic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Slick Rick,
Amon Düül II,
The Flesh Eaters,
FM Einheit,
David Axelrod,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.