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 Indonesia and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 The Stooges to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ 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 spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
Visage,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Toni Rubio,
The Wake,
Erykah Badu,
Ituana,
Audionom,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Average White Band,
Whodini,
The Saints,
Camouflage,
OOIOO,
Index,
Chrome,
Trumans Water,
Can,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Yusef Lateef,
The United States of America,
Al Stewart,
Tears for Fears,
Tres Demented,
Iggy Pop,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eric Dolphy,
KRS-One,
Excepter,
Aural Exciters,
Ponytail,
Mission of Burma,
Joe Smooth,
Jerry's Kids,
Wally Richardson,
Mo-Dettes,
Andrew Hill,
Rotary Connection,
Anthony Braxton,
AZ,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang of Four,
Robert Wyatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rufus Thomas,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Model 500,
The Walker Brothers,
Swell Maps,
New Order,
Make Up,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
H. Thieme,
Bobby Byrd,
Traffic Nightmare,
Peter & Gordon,
Derrick May,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jesper Dahlback,
Saccharine Trust,
Bob Dylan,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.