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 Antigua and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the sitar 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the dance 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
LL Cool J,
Skaos,
Motorama,
Country Teasers,
FM Einheit,
48th St. Collective,
The Birthday Party,
The Human League,
The Golliwogs,
Echospace,
Ronnie Foster,
Altered Images,
Mission of Burma,
Subhumans,
Chris Corsano,
Roy Ayers,
Marvin Gaye,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Chrome,
Blancmange,
B.T. Express,
Deadbeat,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Liliput,
Jeff Mills,
Japan,
Faust,
Funky Four + One,
Heaven 17,
Todd Rundgren,
Mark Hollis,
Ituana,
Grauzone,
Bill Wells,
Anakelly,
Los Fastidios,
Minnie Riperton,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Martian,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Godley & Creme,
Eden Ahbez,
Ten City,
Nirvana,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pantytec,
Qualms,
Joey Negro,
The Techniques,
The Velvet Underground,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cameo,
H. Thieme,
John Coltrane,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Cure,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.