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 Canada and from Salvador.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Michael McDonald 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 Tubeway Army to the electroclash 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Echospace,
Khruangbin,
Godley & Creme,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cecil Taylor,
Hashim,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Public Enemy,
The Happenings,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Television,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Stooges,
Infiniti,
Eve St. Jones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
OOIOO,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Terry Callier,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Colin Newman,
Rosa Yemen,
Harpers Bizarre,
Television Personalities,
Heaven 17,
Flash Fearless,
Spoonie Gee,
Nico,
Pere Ubu,
The Electric Prunes,
Roxy Music,
The Alarm Clocks,
Agitation Free,
Eden Ahbez,
Cymande,
Supertramp,
Sixth Finger,
Aswad,
The Cure,
The Litter,
Kayak,
Frankie Knuckles,
Goldenarms,
The Selecter,
Pierre Henry,
John Lydon,
Funky Four + One,
Gerry Rafferty,
Japan,
Barry Ungar,
Young Marble Giants,
Robert Görl,
Johnny Osbourne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
X-102,
Parry Music,
Sight & Sound,
Fugazi,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.