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 Kuwait and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the rap 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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ 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 theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Alison Limerick,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Deadbeat,
Warren Ellis,
Anakelly,
Ituana,
R.M.O.,
Harmonia,
David McCallum,
the Normal,
David Bowie,
Ken Boothe,
The Slackers,
Roger Hodgson,
Spandau Ballet,
Flash Fearless,
John Cale,
Thee Headcoats,
Black Pus,
Ronan,
Unrelated Segments,
Amon Düül II,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Archie Shepp,
Kenny Larkin,
Michelle Simonal,
Outsiders,
Black Flag,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ultravox,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Music Machine,
OOIOO,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Shoche,
The Fugs,
Jandek,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Echospace,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Reagan Youth,
Nation of Ulysses,
Donny Hathaway,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Motorama,
Cybotron,
The Misunderstood,
The Techniques,
Sun Ra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
This Heat,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Roy Ayers,
Con Funk Shun,
Arthur Verocai,
The Gun Club,
Aaron Thompson,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.