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 Gambia and from Philadelphia.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the electroclash 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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Mantronix,
Mars,
The Kinks,
Sixth Finger,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Simply Red,
Maleditus Sound,
EPMD,
Fugazi,
Isaac Hayes,
Sam Rivers,
Bobby Womack,
Susan Cadogan,
Gong,
Goldenarms,
Lucky Dragons,
The Techniques,
Deadbeat,
Ken Boothe,
James Chance & The Contortions,
X-Ray Spex,
Janne Schatter,
The New Christs,
China Crisis,
Accadde A,
Spandau Ballet,
Lalann,
The Trojans,
The Saints,
Bronski Beat,
The Smoke,
The Evens,
Hashim,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
This Heat,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Toni Rubio,
Rotary Connection,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Television Personalities,
Robert Hood,
Pharoah Sanders,
Royal Trux,
The Gories,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Index,
The Fuzztones,
Camberwell Now,
Funkadelic,
The Golliwogs,
Skaos,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Seeds,
Nils Olav,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Stooges,
John Foxx,
Scan 7,
OOIOO,
Surgeon,
Terry Callier,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.