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 Niger and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Index to the funk 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 Glambeats Corp.. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson 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 an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Dark Day,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minny Pops,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pantaleimon,
Pere Ubu,
Ituana,
Marcia Griffiths,
Yazoo,
Yellowson,
Black Sheep,
Pantytec,
The Real Kids,
Ludus,
Jimmy McGriff,
Desert Stars,
Cluster,
Juan Atkins,
Marc Almond,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Danielle Patucci,
Roy Ayers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Con Funk Shun,
Bob Dylan,
Model 500,
Max Romeo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Make Up,
DNA,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Avey Tare,
Darondo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Angels of Light,
The Vogues,
Todd Rundgren,
R.M.O.,
Pagans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Drexciya,
Roxy Music,
The Move,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Techniques,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Suicide,
Judy Mowatt,
The Velvet Underground,
The Standells,
Drive Like Jehu,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.