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 Seychelles and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron 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 Joe Finger to the techno 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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 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?
Buzzcocks,
Howard Jones,
Dave Gahan,
The Count Five,
Neu!,
The Fall,
The Cramps,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kayak,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kerri Chandler,
the Human League,
The Slits,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nico,
Kenny Larkin,
DJ Style,
Godley & Creme,
The Neon Judgement,
Average White Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Stetsasonic,
Ronan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Pretty Things,
The Seeds,
Idris Muhammad,
Matthew Bourne,
The Slackers,
Masters at Work,
Cal Tjader,
Grey Daturas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Order,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Visage,
Ohio Players,
Zero Boys,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cymande,
Tears for Fears,
Sound Behaviour,
Silicon Teens,
Lindisfarne,
Tom Boy,
kango's stein massive,
Girls At Our Best!,
Trumans Water,
The Gories,
Motorama,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ornette Coleman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Man Eating Sloth,
MC5,
Procol Harum,
Ten City,
The Durutti Column,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.