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 Montenegro and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Royal Trux to the punk 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Livin' Joy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Soul II Soul,
Drive Like Jehu,
Todd Rundgren,
Althea and Donna,
B.T. Express,
Easy Going,
KRS-One,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Livin' Joy,
New Age Steppers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Television Personalities,
Quando Quango,
Patti Smith,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobby Womack,
Lee Hazlewood,
Iggy Pop,
The Toasters,
Isaac Hayes,
Kerri Chandler,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Main Source,
Peter & Gordon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ultra Naté,
Yellowson,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeff Mills,
Massinfluence,
Lightning Bolt,
Eddi Front,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kenny Larkin,
Delta 5,
the Slits,
Inner City,
Pierre Henry,
Schoolly D,
The Fuzztones,
Maleditus Sound,
Hardrive,
Talk Talk,
John Lydon,
The Busters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lakeside,
Piero Umiliani,
48th St. Collective,
Panda Bear,
Swell Maps,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Young Rascals,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cheater Slicks,
Trumans Water,
Gang of Four,
Y Pants,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.