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 Malta and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Halifax.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 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 mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Camberwell Now,
Jerry's Kids,
Grandmaster Flash,
David McCallum,
Dual Sessions,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Todd Terry,
The Neon Judgement,
Juan Atkins,
Whodini,
Derrick May,
Susan Cadogan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chris & Cosey,
Swans,
Dave Gahan,
LL Cool J,
Lou Christie,
Avey Tare,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pole,
Ronan,
Television Personalities,
Sister Nancy,
Althea and Donna,
Urselle,
Fela Kuti,
Jeff Mills,
Curtis Mayfield,
Janne Schatter,
The Human League,
Mandrill,
Maleditus Sound,
Bad Manners,
Accadde A,
the Swans,
Scan 7,
Grauzone,
Godley & Creme,
The Monochrome Set,
Rites of Spring,
Moby Grape,
Interpol,
Tomorrow,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tim Buckley,
Flipper,
Leonard Cohen,
Sonic Youth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alice Coltrane,
Deepchord,
Amazonics,
Kerri Chandler,
Zapp,
The Victims,
Crispy Ambulance,
Blossom Toes,
Robert Görl,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.