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 Nicaragua and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Soul Sonic Force to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb 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 guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Tremeloes,
The New Christs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Alison Limerick,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Average White Band,
Echospace,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sandy B,
Lungfish,
Pere Ubu,
The Invisible,
10cc,
Theoretical Girls,
Skriet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kas Product,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pantytec,
Arcadia,
DJ Sneak,
Bluetip,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Stooges,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Subhumans,
The Blues Magoos,
Panda Bear,
Ken Boothe,
Barrington Levy,
The Smoke,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gang Green,
Flash Fearless,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
ABC,
Country Joe & The Fish,
MC5,
The Pretty Things,
Dennis Brown,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Grass Roots,
Minutemen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wasted Youth,
Peter and Kerry,
Gong,
The Techniques,
Boredoms,
Sarah Menescal,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Animal Collective,
Sexual Harrassment,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Offenders,
Circle Jerks,
Aaron Thompson,
Simply Red,
JFA,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.