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 Kiribati and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 48th St. Collective to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin 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 mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
Pantytec,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Moon,
Eurythmics,
CMW,
Isaac Hayes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Birthday Party,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Matthew Bourne,
Little Man,
The Leaves,
Saccharine Trust,
MC5,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Mummies,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
D'Angelo,
Bobby Byrd,
Rotary Connection,
PIL,
Marc Almond,
Aloha Tigers,
Stereo Dub,
Graham Central Station,
Hashim,
Chris Corsano,
The Doors,
The Evens,
Todd Rundgren,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric B and Rakim,
Man Eating Sloth,
Smog,
Rosa Yemen,
Icehouse,
New Order,
Chrome,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jawbox,
Ice-T,
Surgeon,
Livin' Joy,
Johnny Clarke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Make Up,
Radiohead,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pet Shop Boys,
Piero Umiliani,
E-Dancer,
Sparks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rakim,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Mo-Dettes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.