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 Rwanda and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 linndrum 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 Little Man to the rock 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 the Germs. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground 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 chamberlin 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 rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Names,
Gong,
The Zeros,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mandrill,
World's Most,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Derrick May,
The Mojo Men,
Deepchord,
Eric Copeland,
Goldenarms,
Graham Central Station,
Quando Quango,
The Grass Roots,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Pop Group,
Motorama,
Arcadia,
Mars,
The Blues Magoos,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scratch Acid,
Colin Newman,
Subhumans,
The Tremeloes,
MC5,
Electric Prunes,
Ponytail,
Neil Young,
Gastr Del Sol,
Patti Smith,
New Order,
Cybotron,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sight & Sound,
Negative Approach,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Martian,
Todd Terry,
The Real Kids,
Moss Icon,
David McCallum,
Carl Craig,
Mad Mike,
Japan,
Porter Ricks,
Newcleus,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lalann,
Robert Görl,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Glenn Branca,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soul II Soul,
Amon Düül II,
John Foxx,
Lyres,
Wally Richardson,
The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes.
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.