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 Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bronski Beat to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Kurtis Blow,
Neil Young,
Con Funk Shun,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Sound,
Gichy Dan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
La Düsseldorf,
Popol Vuh,
Shuggie Otis,
Lebanon Hanover,
Barrington Levy,
Gang of Four,
Dark Day,
the Swans,
Ponytail,
Gastr Del Sol,
Maleditus Sound,
Black Sheep,
Minutemen,
Eli Mardock,
The Skatalites,
The Doors,
Hashim,
Q and Not U,
Cluster,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Cowsills,
Ralphi Rosario,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Standells,
Amon Düül,
Babytalk,
Nico,
Scrapy,
Guru Guru,
Ludus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Newcleus,
Kaleidoscope,
Althea and Donna,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eddi Front,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crime,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mo-Dettes,
Basic Channel,
Mantronix,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Motions,
Saccharine Trust,
Pagans,
The Knickerbockers,
Intrusion,
The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras, The Detroit Cobras.
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.