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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Iggy Pop to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario 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 grunge 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 linndrum and a guitar 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 güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Techniques,
Barclay James Harvest,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gang Green,
One Last Wish,
Crash Course in Science,
The Smiths,
Public Enemy,
Eli Mardock,
The Young Rascals,
Technova,
Tomorrow,
The Count Five,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Barrington Levy,
Yusef Lateef,
New York Dolls,
Make Up,
The Music Machine,
Neu!,
MC5,
Camouflage,
DNA,
Black Sheep,
Eve St. Jones,
Faust,
Pantaleimon,
Hasil Adkins,
Tres Demented,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marshall Jefferson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lightning Bolt,
Dave Gahan,
Barry Ungar,
Echospace,
Gang of Four,
Bobby Sherman,
Nation of Ulysses,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Blackbyrds,
Surgeon,
Amon Düül II,
Joy Division,
Franke,
Alton Ellis,
Crispian St. Peters,
Barbara Tucker,
Erasure,
The Gories,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sound Behaviour,
Wire,
Ten City,
Steve Hackett,
Warren Ellis,
Jerry's Kids,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Fire Engines,
The Index,
Procol Harum,
The American Breed,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.