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 Libya and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare 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 Half Japanese to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare 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 organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Flash Fearless,
Kas Product,
Depeche Mode,
Joe Finger,
Yaz,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tommy Roe,
Zero Boys,
Con Funk Shun,
Harpers Bizarre,
Chris & Cosey,
The Pop Group,
Faust,
Flamin' Groovies,
K-Klass,
The Buckinghams,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Junior Murvin,
John Cale,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Oblivians,
The Searchers,
The Walker Brothers,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Beau Brummels,
Rakim,
Soulsonic Force,
Jeff Mills,
Rekid,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Evens,
The Toasters,
Sarah Menescal,
Buzzcocks,
The Offenders,
Max Romeo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bang On A Can,
Minor Threat,
Soul Sonic Force,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ronan,
Nico,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Fugs,
Deepchord,
Tim Buckley,
Leonard Cohen,
Index,
Erasure,
Eli Mardock,
Stetsasonic,
Symarip,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Reagan Youth,
The Fortunes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.