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 Chile and from Salvador.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sound Behaviour to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chrome,
Q and Not U,
EPMD,
Quantec,
Khruangbin,
The Stooges,
Girls At Our Best!,
Goldenarms,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Loose Ends,
Marvin Gaye,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kurtis Blow,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Schoolly D,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bill Near,
Toni Rubio,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The J.B.'s,
The Fuzztones,
The Human League,
Deepchord,
Bob Dylan,
Youth Brigade,
Eurythmics,
Lindisfarne,
The Wake,
Bootsy Collins,
Sound Behaviour,
Severed Heads,
Desert Stars,
Man Parrish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Black Dice,
Malaria!,
Essential Logic,
The Pop Group,
Glenn Branca,
Alison Limerick,
Archie Shepp,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camouflage,
Little Man,
Camberwell Now,
Minor Threat,
Fear,
Nirvana,
Von Mondo,
Franke,
Gichy Dan,
Excepter,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Accadde A,
Organ, Organ, Organ, Organ.
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.