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 Brunei and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 chamberlin 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 H. Thieme to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Techniques,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Chrome,
Tomorrow,
Eden Ahbez,
The Gap Band,
The J.B.'s,
Lakeside,
Metal Thangz,
T.S.O.L.,
Section 25,
Neil Young,
Angry Samoans,
The Names,
Fad Gadget,
B.T. Express,
Suburban Knight,
Moss Icon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bob Dylan,
Scientists,
Television Personalities,
Trumans Water,
Soul Sonic Force,
Barbara Tucker,
Black Moon,
Guru Guru,
Harmonia,
Todd Terry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
AZ,
Funky Four + One,
Average White Band,
Sonic Youth,
Roxette,
Alton Ellis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Babytalk,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Monochrome Set,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Count Five,
Y Pants,
Skriet,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Black Dice,
Godley & Creme,
Joyce Sims,
The Grass Roots,
Al Stewart,
Sandy B,
Liliput,
The Evens,
Duran Duran,
Ponytail,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Offenders,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.