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 Guinea and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare 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 Lou Christie to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
X-102,
Terrestrial Tones,
Popol Vuh,
Supertramp,
The Monks,
David Axelrod,
The Stooges,
Rosa Yemen,
Cheater Slicks,
The Beau Brummels,
Sugar Minott,
Flamin' Groovies,
Hashim,
Michelle Simonal,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nik Kershaw,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Au Pairs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wasted Youth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Funky Four + One,
Japan,
A Certain Ratio,
Suburban Knight,
Excepter,
Dorothy Ashby,
kango's stein massive,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fad Gadget,
Fat Boys,
Spandau Ballet,
The Velvet Underground,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Real Kids,
Archie Shepp,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Matthew Bourne,
This Heat,
Marc Almond,
Wolf Eyes,
Lungfish,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
June Days,
Von Mondo,
Saccharine Trust,
Pet Shop Boys,
Underground Resistance,
Anakelly,
Thee Headcoats,
David McCallum,
Mo-Dettes,
the Human League,
Peter and Kerry,
Eve St. Jones,
Boz Scaggs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Smiths,
Roger Hodgson,
Siglo XX,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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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.