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 Poland and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Peter & Gordon to the disco 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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Derrick May,
The Detroit Cobras,
Technova,
One Last Wish,
Erasure,
The Cowsills,
Livin' Joy,
Black Moon,
Unwound,
Nick Fraelich,
Adolescents,
Beasts of Bourbon,
In Retrospect,
New Order,
Kas Product,
These Immortal Souls,
the Human League,
Jeff Lynne,
Roger Hodgson,
John Holt,
Easy Going,
Aaron Thompson,
Talk Talk,
Robert Görl,
L. Decosne,
The Golliwogs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Skriet,
The Vogues,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mark Hollis,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eric Copeland,
Groovy Waters,
Steve Hackett,
Gang Green,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brand Nubian,
Ken Boothe,
Banda Bassotti,
Siglo XX,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Flag,
Jeff Mills,
Toni Rubio,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Letta Mbulu,
48th St. Collective,
Duran Duran,
10cc,
Fear,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bush Tetras,
Rakim,
Deadbeat,
David Bowie,
Scan 7,
Lee Hazlewood,
Country Teasers,
Anakelly,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.