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 Laos and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 J.B.'s to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron 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 snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
Sugar Minott,
Bang On A Can,
Oblivians,
Maurizio,
The Pop Group,
Das Ding,
Average White Band,
Warren Ellis,
Sun Ra,
Mo-Dettes,
Sixth Finger,
Boogie Down Productions,
Section 25,
Cluster,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dawn Penn,
Skarface,
Fat Boys,
Unwound,
Hasil Adkins,
Q and Not U,
Deepchord,
Television Personalities,
Pharoah Sanders,
Todd Terry,
Pulsallama,
Gerry Rafferty,
Zero Boys,
Marmalade,
Visage,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fuzztones,
Au Pairs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Darondo,
The Mummies,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roxy Music,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Human League,
Skaos,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Soft Cell,
AZ,
Severed Heads,
Nico,
Adolescents,
Crispian St. Peters,
Hardrive,
Desert Stars,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Slits,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jeff Lynne,
Althea and Donna,
Clear Light,
Joy Division,
Delta 5,
Steve Hackett,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.