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 Malaysia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Radio Birdman to the dance 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Second Layer,
Gong,
The Walker Brothers,
Marmalade,
Reuben Wilson,
The Techniques,
The Trojans,
The Skatalites,
Pere Ubu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Velvet Underground,
Ohio Players,
Malaria!,
Darondo,
Josef K,
Harry Pussy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Magma,
Mantronix,
Cecil Taylor,
The Barracudas,
Theoretical Girls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Black Bananas,
Main Source,
The Birthday Party,
Bill Wells,
Crooked Eye,
Idris Muhammad,
Sixth Finger,
Dorothy Ashby,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Agent Orange,
Lungfish,
Sparks,
Fluxion,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Warsaw,
Peter & Gordon,
Y Pants,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Drexciya,
Moebius,
Qualms,
Andrew Hill,
The Divine Comedy,
The Human League,
Peter and Kerry,
Swell Maps,
Althea and Donna,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Public Enemy,
The Sonics,
The Mojo Men,
The Standells,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Move,
Jandek,
The Martian,
The Index,
Rod Modell,
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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.