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 Turkey and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
the Association,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Stooges,
Porter Ricks,
Don Cherry,
KRS-One,
Sandy B,
Symarip,
Nils Olav,
Terrestrial Tones,
K-Klass,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
X-101,
Accadde A,
Wings,
Electric Prunes,
Oblivians,
Slick Rick,
Joyce Sims,
Andrew Hill,
Idris Muhammad,
Youth Brigade,
Arab on Radar,
Eric B and Rakim,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dawn Penn,
The Doors,
The Buckinghams,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sister Nancy,
H. Thieme,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gang Green,
Pagans,
Boredoms,
Clear Light,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Sexual Harrassment,
Reuben Wilson,
The Victims,
Rapeman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Albert Ayler,
Mad Mike,
The Vogues,
Jawbox,
Joe Smooth,
The Moody Blues,
The Young Rascals,
Freddie Wadling,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Detroit Cobras,
Minny Pops,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Hoover,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.