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 Ghana and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Holger Czukay 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 Bobby Womack to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 the Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
The Golliwogs,
Marshall Jefferson,
Wasted Youth,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eve St. Jones,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bronski Beat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
These Immortal Souls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Happenings,
Nas,
The Human League,
Susan Cadogan,
Josef K,
Yazoo,
Soul II Soul,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Grauzone,
Kerrie Biddell,
Unwound,
Don Cherry,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Litter,
Q65,
Soulsonic Force,
CMW,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Absolute Body Control,
Black Flag,
James White and The Blacks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Skriet,
Mr. Review,
Bobby Womack,
Peter & Gordon,
The Evens,
Basic Channel,
Yusef Lateef,
Cameo,
Outsiders,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Anakelly,
Television Personalities,
The Martian,
Intrusion,
Harry Pussy,
Clear Light,
Guru Guru,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Neon Judgement,
Funky Four + One,
Dual Sessions,
Ronnie Foster,
Pierre Henry,
Tommy Roe,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.