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 Libya and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 güiro 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 Gabor Szabo to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator 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 synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
JFA,
David McCallum,
The Evens,
Lower 48,
Absolute Body Control,
Echospace,
DJ Style,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Skaos,
Sonny Sharrock,
Siglo XX,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Khruangbin,
Warsaw,
Livin' Joy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Zeros,
Skriet,
Girls At Our Best!,
Freddie Wadling,
cv313,
Au Pairs,
Piero Umiliani,
Pantaleimon,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jacob Miller,
Eli Mardock,
Joy Division,
Cybotron,
New Order,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Wire,
The Music Machine,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Cure,
Second Layer,
Magma,
The Velvet Underground,
Bush Tetras,
Yusef Lateef,
Joensuu 1685,
Roxy Music,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Model 500,
Q65,
Cluster,
In Retrospect,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Erasure,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jawbox,
Boredoms,
Crash Course in Science,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Gladiators,
Cameo,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.