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 Antigua and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Tom Boy to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Technova,
Half Japanese,
Eddi Front,
The Detroit Cobras,
Television,
The Golliwogs,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Flipper,
The Seeds,
The Human League,
Eric Dolphy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ultravox,
JFA,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Colin Newman,
Rufus Thomas,
The American Breed,
Dead Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
Lindisfarne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Peter and Kerry,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Youth Brigade,
Boz Scaggs,
Maurizio,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Buzzcocks,
Kayak,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Electric Prunes,
a-ha,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
David Bowie,
Marc Almond,
Glambeats Corp.,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jandek,
Yusef Lateef,
The Blues Magoos,
Qualms,
Arab on Radar,
The Music Machine,
Sugar Minott,
Spoonie Gee,
the Germs,
Adolescents,
The Busters,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Happenings,
Television Personalities,
Don Cherry,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Unwound,
the Bar-Kays,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Negative Approach,
Excepter,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.