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 Tuvalu and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Underground Resistance to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar 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 linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Throbbing Gristle,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ice-T,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Blake Baxter,
DJ Style,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bootsy Collins,
Radio Birdman,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Groovy Waters,
Livin' Joy,
The Gap Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
Steve Hackett,
Echospace,
Minutemen,
Guru Guru,
Porter Ricks,
The New Christs,
Girls At Our Best!,
K-Klass,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Danielle Patucci,
Urselle,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Colin Newman,
Con Funk Shun,
MC5,
Stereo Dub,
Half Japanese,
Sparks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Misunderstood,
The Tremeloes,
Michelle Simonal,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sugar Minott,
Panda Bear,
Dark Day,
The Pretty Things,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brick,
Roy Ayers,
Grey Daturas,
Big Daddy Kane,
Al Stewart,
Maleditus Sound,
Spoonie Gee,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Remains,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bad Manners,
Saccharine Trust,
Pulsallama,
Sonny Sharrock,
Althea and Donna,
Carl Craig,
Crime,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.