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 Romania and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin 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 Laurel Aitken to the punk 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 Eve St. Jones. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey 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 spring reverb and an oboe 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 synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
U.S. Maple,
Anakelly,
Section 25,
Oneida,
The Fire Engines,
D'Angelo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Howard Jones,
Schoolly D,
Brass Construction,
The Red Krayola,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scientists,
Archie Shepp,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cymande,
Joey Negro,
The Last Poets,
DNA,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Normal,
Ituana,
Icehouse,
Wings,
Underground Resistance,
The Trojans,
EPMD,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jimmy McGriff,
Unwound,
The Leaves,
Black Moon,
10cc,
Dawn Penn,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Fraelich,
Warsaw,
Ultravox,
Eric Dolphy,
Marine Girls,
Q65,
Qualms,
Bush Tetras,
Roger Hodgson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
LL Cool J,
Half Japanese,
Kaleidoscope,
Spandau Ballet,
Mandrill,
Danielle Patucci,
Quadrant,
Eli Mardock,
The United States of America,
Bill Wells,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.