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 South Sudan and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Basic Channel to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Zeros,
The Cure,
Pierre Henry,
Sonic Youth,
Delta 5,
Robert Hood,
Jawbox,
Max Romeo,
Warren Ellis,
Brass Construction,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lindisfarne,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scott Walker,
Cymande,
Joensuu 1685,
Harmonia,
Wings,
Donny Hathaway,
Yaz,
Skriet,
Althea and Donna,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Foxx,
The Slits,
Underground Resistance,
Circle Jerks,
The Litter,
The Alarm Clocks,
Radiohead,
Moebius,
Thee Headcoats,
Maleditus Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Half Japanese,
Lalo Schifrin,
Matthew Bourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Panda Bear,
Joyce Sims,
Davy DMX,
The Happenings,
The Five Americans,
Kaleidoscope,
U.S. Maple,
Sight & Sound,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sparks,
Gabor Szabo,
Heaven 17,
Joey Negro,
Marvin Gaye,
The Count Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sarah Menescal,
Country Teasers,
Animal Collective,
Little Man,
One Last Wish,
Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive.
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.