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 Turkmenistan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer 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 Chris & Cosey to the rock 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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Index,
Albert Ayler,
Metal Thangz,
Young Marble Giants,
Hashim,
James White and The Blacks,
Matthew Bourne,
Mantronix,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bronski Beat,
Harry Pussy,
Sällskapet,
Pantytec,
The American Breed,
Cheater Slicks,
Ronnie Foster,
UT,
Radiohead,
Faraquet,
Von Mondo,
The Sound,
The Alarm Clocks,
Essential Logic,
Fad Gadget,
Tommy Roe,
Neu!,
The Modern Lovers,
Brick,
Fat Boys,
Peter & Gordon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Raincoats,
The Saints,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Slick Rick,
Country Teasers,
Pere Ubu,
Rufus Thomas,
The Sonics,
Minnie Riperton,
The Angels of Light,
Supertramp,
X-Ray Spex,
Davy DMX,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Human League,
Black Sheep,
La Düsseldorf,
The Misunderstood,
Buzzcocks,
Cameo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Derrick Morgan,
Don Cherry,
The Buckinghams,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.