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 Switzerland 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Scrapy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian 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 an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fela Kuti,
Leonard Cohen,
Simply Red,
Fatback Band,
Nas,
Yaz,
DJ Style,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fall,
Hashim,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Real Kids,
The Electric Prunes,
Tommy Roe,
Rosa Yemen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Trumans Water,
Connie Case,
Mr. Review,
Country Teasers,
Crime,
Junior Murvin,
Niagra,
Wings,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sandy B,
Althea and Donna,
Moss Icon,
Moebius,
David Bowie,
Bob Dylan,
The Skatalites,
The Star Department,
Technova,
Sällskapet,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Golliwogs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Desert Stars,
10cc,
Roy Ayers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Easy Going,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lakeside,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Smiths,
Joy Division,
China Crisis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Deakin,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Selecter,
Dead Boys,
Duran Duran,
Anakelly,
FM Einheit,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.