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 Zimbabwe and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Hashim to the electroclash 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Joyce Sims,
Organ,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joy Division,
Delon & Dalcan,
Juan Atkins,
Robert Görl,
Sandy B,
Quantec,
The Modern Lovers,
LL Cool J,
CMW,
Jeff Mills,
Mars,
Oblivians,
Amon Düül,
The Moody Blues,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sixth Finger,
Rufus Thomas,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Swans,
Yusef Lateef,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David Axelrod,
The Techniques,
Basic Channel,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The United States of America,
Scan 7,
Drive Like Jehu,
Joe Smooth,
The Happenings,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Smiths,
Chrome,
Can,
The Fuzztones,
Alison Limerick,
The Selecter,
Grauzone,
U.S. Maple,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Golliwogs,
Kurtis Blow,
Babytalk,
H. Thieme,
The Knickerbockers,
Wings,
Ornette Coleman,
Ultra Naté,
Tears for Fears,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Agitation Free,
Funky Four + One,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mandrill,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.