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 East Timor and from London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sister Nancy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar 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 linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gang Green,
Barrington Levy,
Liliput,
Supertramp,
Iggy Pop,
ABBA,
Michelle Simonal,
Trumans Water,
Con Funk Shun,
The New Christs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bluetip,
Accadde A,
Camberwell Now,
Clear Light,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dennis Brown,
This Heat,
Blossom Toes,
K-Klass,
Theoretical Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bad Manners,
The Vogues,
Archie Shepp,
Gerry Rafferty,
Q65,
Black Bananas,
D'Angelo,
Popol Vuh,
Skaos,
Nick Fraelich,
Zero Boys,
Moby Grape,
Dorothy Ashby,
Desert Stars,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joy Division,
Ice-T,
Buzzcocks,
Technova,
Shuggie Otis,
Can,
Lou Reed,
Lightning Bolt,
Kas Product,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sun Ra,
Lou Christie,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Zeros,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
David McCallum,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eurythmics,
Khruangbin,
Groovy Waters,
Monks,
Crooked Eye,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.