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 Marshall Islands and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Human League to the grime 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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes 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 guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
The Real Kids,
Leonard Cohen,
Al Stewart,
Mo-Dettes,
Rod Modell,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gang Green,
Zapp,
Loose Ends,
Public Enemy,
Television Personalities,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eli Mardock,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Wings,
Mantronix,
Angry Samoans,
Camberwell Now,
Eric Dolphy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Sonics,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sound Behaviour,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Symarip,
KRS-One,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Stooges,
Peter and Kerry,
John Lydon,
Excepter,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rosa Yemen,
Jerry's Kids,
Erasure,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Bar-Kays,
Jesper Dahlback,
Severed Heads,
Ossler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soft Machine,
MDC,
Mad Mike,
The Invisible,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slackers,
Boz Scaggs,
La Düsseldorf,
K-Klass,
The Motions,
Eric Copeland,
Idris Muhammad,
Desert Stars,
Flash Fearless,
Kerrie Biddell,
Aswad,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.