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 Fiji and from Stockholm.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Marshall Jefferson to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Excepter,
Lindisfarne,
Flamin' Groovies,
DJ Style,
Con Funk Shun,
Tomorrow,
Rakim,
Toni Rubio,
The Zeros,
The Index,
Wasted Youth,
John Foxx,
Susan Cadogan,
Altered Images,
Patti Smith,
JFA,
Bronski Beat,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siglo XX,
Grey Daturas,
The Fire Engines,
Mark Hollis,
L. Decosne,
Sister Nancy,
UT,
Gang of Four,
Bill Wells,
Peter & Gordon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Soft Cell,
Gong,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sam Rivers,
Intrusion,
Bad Manners,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scrapy,
Barbara Tucker,
Audionom,
These Immortal Souls,
AZ,
Pole,
Agent Orange,
China Crisis,
Lucky Dragons,
Wire,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Malaria!,
Youth Brigade,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mantronix,
The Mummies,
Pulsallama,
Y Pants,
Tropical Tobacco,
10cc,
Electric Prunes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.