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 Brazil and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the techno 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro 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 guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Cybotron,
Nils Olav,
Lalo Schifrin,
Franke,
Ludus,
Throbbing Gristle,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soul II Soul,
Scion,
Urselle,
Bob Dylan,
Kurtis Blow,
X-Ray Spex,
Alison Limerick,
Slick Rick,
Michelle Simonal,
Eric Copeland,
Matthew Bourne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Stiv Bators,
Youth Brigade,
Underground Resistance,
X-101,
Television,
The New Christs,
Hardrive,
Moby Grape,
Nas,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Birthday Party,
Yaz,
Jeff Mills,
The Cramps,
Banda Bassotti,
Byron Stingily,
Pussy Galore,
Lower 48,
Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Henry Cow,
Magma,
DNA,
John Cale,
Archie Shepp,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Adolescents,
Buzzcocks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mark Hollis,
Terry Callier,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Pretty Things,
Barclay James Harvest,
Y Pants,
Boz Scaggs,
Drexciya,
Bluetip,
The Grass Roots,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.