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 Armenia and from Madrid.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 harpsichord 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 Mad Mike to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Funky Four + One,
48th St. Collective,
David McCallum,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Spandau Ballet,
Eurythmics,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Slits,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mo-Dettes,
The Blackbyrds,
Neu!,
Sällskapet,
Stetsasonic,
Outsiders,
The Fall,
Procol Harum,
Thompson Twins,
Morten Harket,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Yusef Lateef,
Funkadelic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Idris Muhammad,
The Pop Group,
Symarip,
The Happenings,
Hardrive,
Marvin Gaye,
Rakim,
Harry Pussy,
Make Up,
Delta 5,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gang Green,
the Sonics,
Roxy Music,
Soul II Soul,
Shuggie Otis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DJ Style,
Sexual Harrassment,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jeff Lynne,
Television Personalities,
The Cramps,
Archie Shepp,
The Cosmic Jokers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lalann,
Newcleus,
Organ,
Schoolly D,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Durutti Column,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Zapp,
Lyres,
The Mummies,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.