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 Afghanistan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Albert Ayler to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 harpsichord and a rhodes 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 arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Arcadia,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Robert Wyatt,
Crispian St. Peters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marc Almond,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camouflage,
Niagra,
Oblivians,
Dual Sessions,
Slave,
Franke,
Sugar Minott,
Ituana,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Toni Rubio,
Wally Richardson,
Charles Mingus,
Negative Approach,
The Smiths,
The Mighty Diamonds,
UT,
Oneida,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Trojans,
Barclay James Harvest,
Joe Smooth,
Bauhaus,
The Litter,
CMW,
Wire,
Pantytec,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Sheep,
The Sound,
The Human League,
Pulsallama,
The Selecter,
Nik Kershaw,
The Gap Band,
The Motions,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlback,
Althea and Donna,
the Human League,
Zapp,
The Smoke,
The Zeros,
Minny Pops,
Bluetip,
Second Layer,
The Neon Judgement,
Moby Grape,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Television Personalities,
Dave Gahan,
Youth Brigade,
Echospace,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.