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 Congo and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Milan.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Tom Boy to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Black Moon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Althea and Donna,
China Crisis,
Tears for Fears,
Ice-T,
John Coltrane,
Flamin' Groovies,
Underground Resistance,
Roger Hodgson,
Popol Vuh,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Organ,
Lebanon Hanover,
Simply Red,
The Cramps,
Black Pus,
The Standells,
Ultra Naté,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
MC5,
Nik Kershaw,
David Axelrod,
Boredoms,
Von Mondo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Barrington Levy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Todd Rundgren,
Theoretical Girls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camouflage,
the Association,
Dawn Penn,
The Golliwogs,
Fad Gadget,
Marmalade,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Au Pairs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Germs,
The Vogues,
Mark Hollis,
Vainqueur,
The Flesh Eaters,
Metal Thangz,
The Seeds,
The Mojo Men,
The Knickerbockers,
Yazoo,
Deepchord,
The Busters,
Jandek,
Robert Hood,
Tropical Tobacco,
Soul II Soul,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.