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 Pakistan and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Madrid.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Bluetip to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 mellotron and an organ 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 spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
The Beau Brummels,
Arthur Verocai,
The Monochrome Set,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Byrd,
Avey Tare,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang Green,
Soul II Soul,
DJ Style,
James White and The Blacks,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Gun Club,
Aloha Tigers,
Dawn Penn,
The Gap Band,
Von Mondo,
Easy Going,
Heaven 17,
Throbbing Gristle,
L. Decosne,
The Happenings,
Bob Dylan,
Piero Umiliani,
John Cale,
Delon & Dalcan,
Frankie Knuckles,
Delta 5,
Sällskapet,
The Sonics,
Cecil Taylor,
Average White Band,
Funkadelic,
Derrick Morgan,
K-Klass,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lee Hazlewood,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Yazoo,
Warsaw,
kango's stein massive,
Lakeside,
Pantaleimon,
Dead Boys,
Alison Limerick,
Flipper,
The Cure,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Patti Smith,
Chris & Cosey,
Josef K,
Audionom,
Soft Cell,
Carl Craig,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Livin' Joy,
The American Breed,
Ronnie Foster,
The Litter,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.