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 Monaco and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 In Retrospect 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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a guitar and a güiro 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 an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Simply Red,
Yazoo,
Brass Construction,
Bill Wells,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Suicide,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Urselle,
The Gap Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Mandrill,
The Barracudas,
Anakelly,
The Kinks,
The Moody Blues,
The Offenders,
Minnie Riperton,
The Busters,
Panda Bear,
Morten Harket,
Reagan Youth,
Maurizio,
Aaron Thompson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scion,
Barclay James Harvest,
Avey Tare,
Black Bananas,
Half Japanese,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jimmy McGriff,
Yusef Lateef,
The Litter,
Los Fastidios,
Scratch Acid,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Grass Roots,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Motions,
Fad Gadget,
The United States of America,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soft Cell,
Monks,
Faust,
Sister Nancy,
Shuggie Otis,
Bauhaus,
the Slits,
Sam Rivers,
Youth Brigade,
Yaz,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Scott Walker,
Lightning Bolt,
Todd Rundgren,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.