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 Honduras and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Unrelated Segments to the disco 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispian St. Peters,
Lyres,
Dead Boys,
Skriet,
Buzzcocks,
Mr. Review,
R.M.O.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Reuben Wilson,
Kerri Chandler,
Delon & Dalcan,
Quantec,
Erasure,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fatback Band,
Althea and Donna,
Soft Cell,
Roxy Music,
Silicon Teens,
Soulsonic Force,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dark Day,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eddi Front,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nik Kershaw,
Japan,
Maurizio,
The Happenings,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oneida,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Harmonia,
Pagans,
Deepchord,
Pulsallama,
Electric Light Orchestra,
a-ha,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Unwound,
Moss Icon,
T. Rex,
Tom Boy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
A Certain Ratio,
The Real Kids,
Tubeway Army,
Jacob Miller,
The Red Krayola,
Crime,
Idris Muhammad,
Laurel Aitken,
Stiv Bators,
Brand Nubian,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rapeman,
The Dead C,
Don Cherry,
Subhumans,
The Moleskins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.