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 Indonesia and from Jakarta.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kool Moe Dee to the disco 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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cameo,
Aloha Tigers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sight & Sound,
Grandmaster Flash,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Pretty Things,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Christie,
UT,
The Golliwogs,
The Count Five,
The Zeros,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eddi Front,
Talk Talk,
Khruangbin,
Scientists,
The Walker Brothers,
Motorama,
Mo-Dettes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Associates,
Rekid,
Aswad,
Lower 48,
Gang Starr,
Brothers Johnson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
John Lydon,
Unwound,
Drexciya,
Model 500,
Rod Modell,
Warsaw,
Maurizio,
The Velvet Underground,
Bootsy Collins,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Hoover,
Grey Daturas,
a-ha,
Ronnie Foster,
Minny Pops,
DJ Sneak,
Suicide,
Tres Demented,
Crash Course in Science,
Al Stewart,
David Bowie,
Isaac Hayes,
Silicon Teens,
Rites of Spring,
The Pop Group,
The Fortunes,
Morten Harket,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine.
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.