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 Kosovo and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Sam Rivers,
The Evens,
Derrick May,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
New York Dolls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marine Girls,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Searchers,
Guru Guru,
Nils Olav,
The Modern Lovers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Derrick Morgan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
John Lydon,
Theoretical Girls,
The Cure,
Trumans Water,
Moss Icon,
Quantec,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Gories,
Roxette,
Radiohead,
Godley & Creme,
Suburban Knight,
Cluster,
Pulsallama,
48th St. Collective,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Electric Prunes,
The Human League,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Associates,
Nik Kershaw,
Johnny Clarke,
Lower 48,
Kayak,
Isaac Hayes,
Arab on Radar,
Sarah Menescal,
New Order,
F. McDonald,
Rekid,
John Cale,
The Busters,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fela Kuti,
Davy DMX,
Heaven 17,
Groovy Waters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nick Fraelich,
Simply Red,
The Smoke,
Eric Dolphy,
Motorama,
Porter Ricks,
Arcadia,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.