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 Nauru and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Lindisfarne to the rap 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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin 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 spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Maleditus Sound,
EPMD,
Scientists,
Sun City Girls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Doors,
Joe Finger,
Jacob Miller,
Alice Coltrane,
Slick Rick,
Public Enemy,
Simply Red,
Swell Maps,
Jandek,
Cecil Taylor,
Zapp,
Average White Band,
Monolake,
Connie Case,
The Count Five,
Bill Wells,
Technova,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Country Teasers,
UT,
Robert Wyatt,
Tears for Fears,
Byron Stingily,
The Fuzztones,
Deakin,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eve St. Jones,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mars,
Gerry Rafferty,
the Soft Cell,
Ralphi Rosario,
John Holt,
Yazoo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Moody Blues,
Malaria!,
Skriet,
Arthur Verocai,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Brass Construction,
Barrington Levy,
The Litter,
Pylon,
E-Dancer,
Motorama,
Gang Green,
cv313,
Pulsallama,
Pantytec,
Excepter,
Aural Exciters,
Agent Orange,
Joe Smooth,
Avey Tare,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.