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 Costa Rica and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The United States of America 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry Gold Smith 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 mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Lightning Bolt,
The Star Department,
John Coltrane,
Darondo,
Dave Gahan,
Popol Vuh,
H. Thieme,
Reagan Youth,
Symarip,
kango's stein massive,
Maurizio,
Con Funk Shun,
Morten Harket,
Hardrive,
Lou Reed,
New Age Steppers,
The Young Rascals,
Fela Kuti,
ABC,
Marvin Gaye,
The Cure,
cv313,
X-102,
Tommy Roe,
The Black Dice,
the Sonics,
LL Cool J,
Toni Rubio,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boredoms,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Michelle Simonal,
Reuben Wilson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pagans,
The Velvet Underground,
Angry Samoans,
Lee Hazlewood,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Mad Mike,
Mark Hollis,
The Litter,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rosa Yemen,
Avey Tare,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ossler,
The Durutti Column,
The Vogues,
the Bar-Kays,
Drexciya,
Pantytec,
Bronski Beat,
Cymande,
The Saints,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Qualms,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Model 500,
Max Romeo,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.