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 Japan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Quantec to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Monochrome Set,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Blake Baxter,
Bad Manners,
The Blackbyrds,
the Bar-Kays,
The Real Kids,
Marmalade,
The Associates,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
A Certain Ratio,
Lucky Dragons,
Popol Vuh,
Kaleidoscope,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
T.S.O.L.,
Cheater Slicks,
The Golliwogs,
James White and The Blacks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lindisfarne,
the Human League,
Joensuu 1685,
The Black Dice,
Funky Four + One,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Buzzcocks,
Accadde A,
Schoolly D,
Neil Young,
Das Ding,
Ken Boothe,
Eric Copeland,
the Association,
Little Man,
Interpol,
Dave Gahan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nils Olav,
Bob Dylan,
Con Funk Shun,
Porter Ricks,
Vladislav Delay,
Glenn Branca,
Adolescents,
Darondo,
The Names,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kas Product,
Icehouse,
E-Dancer,
The Selecter,
Q and Not U,
Y Pants,
Moby Grape,
Procol Harum,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Yaz,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.