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 Kenya and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Stereo Dub to the techno 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 Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a 808 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 güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fire Engines,
MC5,
Grey Daturas,
Colin Newman,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Howard Jones,
Negative Approach,
Zapp,
The Cowsills,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scrapy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Index,
Gang Green,
Magazine,
Delta 5,
Ken Boothe,
Supertramp,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Derrick May,
Morten Harket,
The Monochrome Set,
The Gories,
John Holt,
Bluetip,
The Fall,
The Remains,
Accadde A,
The Happenings,
Quando Quango,
The Barracudas,
Radio Birdman,
Anakelly,
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker,
Aloha Tigers,
Michelle Simonal,
Aural Exciters,
The Motions,
OOIOO,
Eric Copeland,
Carl Craig,
The Dirtbombs,
Jacob Miller,
The Toasters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Moebius,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Joyce Sims,
The Sonics,
June of 44,
Leonard Cohen,
Bootsy Collins,
Grauzone,
Minnie Riperton,
Essential Logic,
DJ Sneak,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.