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 Honduras and from London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Edmonton.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ 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 Simply Red to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar 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 guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
LL Cool J,
The Dead C,
Gang of Four,
Roxy Music,
Adolescents,
Soul II Soul,
Matthew Bourne,
The Golliwogs,
John Coltrane,
Robert Görl,
Spandau Ballet,
Piero Umiliani,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
John Cale,
Lightning Bolt,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Leaves,
Black Pus,
The Blackbyrds,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kaleidoscope,
Roy Ayers,
Mars,
Supertramp,
Mark Hollis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Can,
ABBA,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eden Ahbez,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
D'Angelo,
Slick Rick,
Blancmange,
Godley & Creme,
Kas Product,
Man Eating Sloth,
Barry Ungar,
Ken Boothe,
Duran Duran,
Pantytec,
In Retrospect,
The Motions,
Fluxion,
The Fall,
Soft Machine,
The Toasters,
Eli Mardock,
Ossler,
Blake Baxter,
Donald Byrd,
Amon Düül II,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
James Chance & The Contortions,
48th St. Collective,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eve St. Jones,
Bluetip,
The Count Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.