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 East Timor and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ten City to the rock 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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
The Barracudas,
The Saints,
Clear Light,
the Slits,
Ultravox,
Blancmange,
Amazonics,
Byron Stingily,
Black Moon,
Derrick May,
The Busters,
One Last Wish,
Youth Brigade,
Gang Starr,
Jimmy McGriff,
Mr. Review,
Trumans Water,
Swans,
The Gun Club,
June Days,
Sixth Finger,
Quantec,
Radiohead,
Chrome,
The Associates,
Dead Boys,
Fear,
Scratch Acid,
Ponytail,
Nick Fraelich,
Don Cherry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Crime,
Whodini,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sparks,
Kas Product,
Eric Copeland,
James White and The Blacks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Urselle,
CMW,
Infiniti,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rites of Spring,
The Cure,
The New Christs,
Spandau Ballet,
Reuben Wilson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Babytalk,
Technova,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sun Ra,
Warsaw,
E-Dancer,
Soul Sonic Force,
Anakelly,
Agent Orange,
Terry Callier,
Josef K,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.