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 Peru and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the rap 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 Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Spandau Ballet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb 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 theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Gories,
Monolake,
Television Personalities,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Janne Schatter,
Simply Red,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sister Nancy,
Marine Girls,
The Associates,
John Holt,
Slave,
Eurythmics,
Groovy Waters,
Technova,
Lower 48,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Normal,
UT,
Can,
Joyce Sims,
Althea and Donna,
Amon Düül II,
KRS-One,
Altered Images,
Brothers Johnson,
Bob Dylan,
Scientists,
The Buckinghams,
The Fuzztones,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Fortunes,
Radio Birdman,
The Durutti Column,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bill Near,
Lakeside,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Invisible,
Soul II Soul,
Nation of Ulysses,
In Retrospect,
Rosa Yemen,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ultra Naté,
Reagan Youth,
Grauzone,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Human League,
Marvin Gaye,
Kayak,
June of 44,
Roxy Music,
The Sound,
Matthew Halsall,
Dead Boys,
The Skatalites,
E-Dancer,
The Grass Roots,
Morten Harket,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.