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 Kuwait and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Skaos to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
H. Thieme,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Blancmange,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Babytalk,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Blues Magoos,
Johnny Osbourne,
CMW,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Unrelated Segments,
Soft Cell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Los Fastidios,
Rosa Yemen,
L. Decosne,
Heaven 17,
Wally Richardson,
ABC,
Monks,
Sun City Girls,
Traffic Nightmare,
Television,
Ossler,
Harry Pussy,
Junior Murvin,
Quando Quango,
Minnie Riperton,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Depeche Mode,
Banda Bassotti,
The Pop Group,
Delta 5,
The Slits,
Jawbox,
The Misunderstood,
Motorama,
Stockholm Monsters,
Stereo Dub,
F. McDonald,
Gastr Del Sol,
Magma,
The Fall,
Supertramp,
Pantaleimon,
Crooked Eye,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Morten Harket,
Black Sheep,
Kevin Saunderson,
Visage,
Aural Exciters,
Eden Ahbez,
Roger Hodgson,
The Evens,
Joyce Sims,
The Smiths,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rhythm & Sound,
Faraquet,
Colin Newman,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.