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 Romania and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Swell Maps to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb 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 snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Pantytec,
10cc,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sarah Menescal,
Judy Mowatt,
Cameo,
Absolute Body Control,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
X-101,
Bobbi Humphrey,
AZ,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Graham Central Station,
Sällskapet,
Frankie Knuckles,
Boredoms,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Icehouse,
Dave Gahan,
Dawn Penn,
Dead Boys,
Oneida,
Sexual Harrassment,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bill Near,
Funkadelic,
Cheater Slicks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Clear Light,
The Vogues,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
FM Einheit,
K-Klass,
Susan Cadogan,
X-102,
Simply Red,
Brass Construction,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Idris Muhammad,
Scott Walker,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bill Wells,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Motions,
The Count Five,
The Music Machine,
Darondo,
Buzzcocks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tubeway Army,
Minny Pops,
E-Dancer,
Pole,
La Düsseldorf,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Fugs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Porter Ricks,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.