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 Canada and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ronan to the disco 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 The Slits. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Gap Band,
Procol Harum,
The Buckinghams,
Peter & Gordon,
Television Personalities,
John Cale,
The Leaves,
Soft Cell,
Rod Modell,
Gang Green,
Magma,
Gastr Del Sol,
X-Ray Spex,
Joyce Sims,
China Crisis,
The Tremeloes,
Fear,
Fat Boys,
Yaz,
Howard Jones,
Youth Brigade,
Lindisfarne,
The Offenders,
Maleditus Sound,
Michelle Simonal,
Funkadelic,
Accadde A,
Audionom,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wally Richardson,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nils Olav,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Martian,
Swell Maps,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Soft Cell,
Ornette Coleman,
Pagans,
Babytalk,
Duran Duran,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jandek,
Brand Nubian,
Steve Hackett,
Unrelated Segments,
Laurel Aitken,
Nico,
Lalann,
La Düsseldorf,
Circle Jerks,
Desert Stars,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fugazi,
Nirvana,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Amon Düül,
Scientists,
The Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.