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 Nigeria and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Patti Smith to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire 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?
Barrington Levy,
The Blackbyrds,
The United States of America,
The Human League,
Toni Rubio,
Basic Channel,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sällskapet,
Technova,
The Techniques,
Gong,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ornette Coleman,
Wire,
David Axelrod,
Patti Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Green,
kango's stein massive,
Bill Near,
Easy Going,
The Litter,
Camberwell Now,
Main Source,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ossler,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Monochrome Set,
Bill Wells,
Glenn Branca,
Gichy Dan,
Mark Hollis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pulsallama,
Amon Düül II,
Shuggie Otis,
Aural Exciters,
Groovy Waters,
Brothers Johnson,
Mandrill,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television,
Bizarre Inc.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fatback Band,
F. McDonald,
Theoretical Girls,
Barry Ungar,
Mr. Review,
The Dead C,
Bush Tetras,
Wings,
Gang of Four,
Parry Music,
China Crisis,
Stetsasonic,
The Neon Judgement,
D'Angelo,
Cybotron,
Magazine,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.