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 Sweden and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 the Soft Cell to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Electric Prunes,
Popol Vuh,
T.S.O.L.,
Minor Threat,
Pet Shop Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Quando Quango,
Television,
Zapp,
Dawn Penn,
ABBA,
Joyce Sims,
The Leaves,
Agitation Free,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sun Ra,
The Gap Band,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Piero Umiliani,
The Real Kids,
Camberwell Now,
Monks,
Jeff Mills,
Barbara Tucker,
Parry Music,
Archie Shepp,
The Tremeloes,
Barrington Levy,
Thompson Twins,
Goldenarms,
Agent Orange,
World's Most,
Q65,
Sight & Sound,
Chris Corsano,
Inner City,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fugazi,
Matthew Bourne,
Quadrant,
Simply Red,
The Fortunes,
Hashim,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
MC5,
Skriet,
Visage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gories,
Monolake,
Leonard Cohen,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eddi Front,
Banda Bassotti,
The Associates,
John Holt,
Skaos,
The Doors,
The Selecter,
Ultra Naté,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.