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 Marshall Islands and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
In Retrospect,
Funky Four + One,
Ronnie Foster,
Country Teasers,
Echospace,
OOIOO,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nik Kershaw,
Prince Buster,
Glenn Branca,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Deepchord,
FM Einheit,
The Techniques,
Cal Tjader,
Reagan Youth,
Groovy Waters,
Marcia Griffiths,
Malaria!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cure,
Vainqueur,
The Motions,
Goldenarms,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Niagra,
Little Man,
Kool Moe Dee,
Vladislav Delay,
Bronski Beat,
The Slackers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Moleskins,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Pretty Things,
48th St. Collective,
Severed Heads,
Depeche Mode,
Yazoo,
La Düsseldorf,
Joey Negro,
Janne Schatter,
Dave Gahan,
Sugar Minott,
the Normal,
The Mummies,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jacob Miller,
Grey Daturas,
Deadbeat,
Easy Going,
Porter Ricks,
Skarface,
The Toasters,
Cameo,
The Evens,
Q and Not U,
The J.B.'s,
The Kinks,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.