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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator 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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks to the disco 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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
The Real Kids,
Pulsallama,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gang of Four,
Josef K,
Kool Moe Dee,
ABC,
Bobbi Humphrey,
kango's stein massive,
Howard Jones,
Dead Boys,
The Smoke,
Aswad,
Bronski Beat,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Barbara Tucker,
Cheater Slicks,
Q and Not U,
Banda Bassotti,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Slits,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Darondo,
Monks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Wings,
Anthony Braxton,
Newcleus,
Main Source,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Essential Logic,
Judy Mowatt,
Crime,
Public Enemy,
Alison Limerick,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Heaven 17,
Prince Buster,
Angry Samoans,
Boz Scaggs,
Sun City Girls,
Zero Boys,
Eli Mardock,
U.S. Maple,
Minny Pops,
The Associates,
Hasil Adkins,
Niagra,
Idris Muhammad,
X-102,
Avey Tare,
The Skatalites,
Eric Dolphy,
L. Decosne,
Tears for Fears,
FM Einheit,
Siglo XX,
Roger Hodgson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.