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 Cyprus and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator 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 Underground Resistance to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Pagans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
kango's stein massive,
Anthony Braxton,
New Order,
Absolute Body Control,
Howard Jones,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
CMW,
London Community Gospel Choir,
China Crisis,
Rapeman,
Television,
Kerri Chandler,
Max Romeo,
Juan Atkins,
These Immortal Souls,
The Kinks,
Quadrant,
Kas Product,
Moby Grape,
The Durutti Column,
The Saints,
Bobby Byrd,
The Fall,
Dual Sessions,
Yellowson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Q and Not U,
Adolescents,
Robert Hood,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wasted Youth,
Big Daddy Kane,
Motorama,
F. McDonald,
The Sonics,
FM Einheit,
Accadde A,
David Bowie,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Standells,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Theoretical Girls,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Peter and Kerry,
The Misunderstood,
Sam Rivers,
Leonard Cohen,
Minnie Riperton,
Porter Ricks,
Inner City,
Tommy Roe,
Saccharine Trust,
The Index,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.