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 Antigua and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 organ 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 Japan to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Make Up record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
B.T. Express,
Arthur Verocai,
Guru Guru,
Joe Finger,
Boredoms,
Marvin Gaye,
Ituana,
Derrick Morgan,
Das Ding,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Zapp,
Visage,
The Zeros,
MDC,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ken Boothe,
Jacob Miller,
cv313,
World's Most,
The Martian,
Mandrill,
Roger Hodgson,
Monks,
Newcleus,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Liliput,
Franke,
the Normal,
Spoonie Gee,
EPMD,
Electric Prunes,
Jacques Brel,
Crime,
Erasure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Arab on Radar,
David Bowie,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
X-101,
Joe Smooth,
David McCallum,
The Gladiators,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fire Engines,
Scratch Acid,
Jesper Dahlback,
F. McDonald,
The Buckinghams,
The Human League,
Ossler,
Jerry's Kids,
Hoover,
Bronski Beat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Tres Demented,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Darondo,
Roxette,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tommy Roe,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.