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 Greece and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Misunderstood to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron 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 snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sarah Menescal,
The United States of America,
The Gladiators,
The Dirtbombs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Prince Buster,
Fugazi,
Morten Harket,
Junior Murvin,
Joey Negro,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bobby Byrd,
Circle Jerks,
Amon Düül,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Happenings,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Al Stewart,
The Gories,
Shuggie Otis,
Hardrive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Urselle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Sonics,
MC5,
the Fania All-Stars,
Tommy Roe,
Pharoah Sanders,
Crash Course in Science,
Scan 7,
Babytalk,
The Offenders,
Pierre Henry,
Gil Scott Heron,
Excepter,
Technova,
Absolute Body Control,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Count Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
David Axelrod,
Piero Umiliani,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Beasts of Bourbon,
China Crisis,
Terry Callier,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cluster,
Von Mondo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soul II Soul,
Surgeon,
Gerry Rafferty,
One Last Wish,
Amon Düül II,
Stetsasonic,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.