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 Guinea and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Janne Schatter to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
The J.B.'s,
Siglo XX,
Parry Music,
Crime,
Big Daddy Kane,
Howard Jones,
Yaz,
Lindisfarne,
Matthew Halsall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jacques Brel,
Mo-Dettes,
The Move,
Von Mondo,
Panda Bear,
Jacob Miller,
Gang Starr,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fire Engines,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Reagan Youth,
The Slackers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Duran Duran,
10cc,
Soul Sonic Force,
Faraquet,
One Last Wish,
Tropical Tobacco,
Hoover,
Half Japanese,
Cameo,
Guru Guru,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Los Fastidios,
Tomorrow,
Unwound,
Pet Shop Boys,
Khruangbin,
The Monochrome Set,
Gichy Dan,
Moebius,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roger Hodgson,
Nils Olav,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Public Enemy,
Boz Scaggs,
Joe Finger,
Scott Walker,
Skaos,
Rotary Connection,
Sound Behaviour,
The Barracudas,
Sun City Girls,
Slick Rick,
New York Dolls,
Rosa Yemen,
Arcadia,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.