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 Laos and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
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 Yazoo to the crunk 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
the Soft Cell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Hardrive,
Radiopuhelimet,
Japan,
Sight & Sound,
Audionom,
X-Ray Spex,
Pagans,
Swans,
Letta Mbulu,
Howard Jones,
Slave,
Jacques Brel,
Roger Hodgson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ohio Players,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sixth Finger,
Jerry's Kids,
Tommy Roe,
Scientists,
Robert Wyatt,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Colin Newman,
A Certain Ratio,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Martian,
The Zeros,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Smog,
The Motions,
The Associates,
Ludus,
Nico,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nation of Ulysses,
Don Cherry,
Bobby Sherman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Newcleus,
Erasure,
Bobby Womack,
LL Cool J,
Section 25,
Ten City,
Gang of Four,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Mummies,
Flipper,
Wolf Eyes,
Country Teasers,
Altered Images,
Ralphi Rosario,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lou Christie,
Neu!,
the Association,
Kurtis Blow,
Lalann,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.