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 Angola and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 linndrum 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 Michelle Simonal to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The New Christs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Drexciya,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Q and Not U,
Robert Hood,
Lyres,
Buzzcocks,
Bauhaus,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Blues Magoos,
Lalann,
Barrington Levy,
Von Mondo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tres Demented,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
OOIOO,
CMW,
Outsiders,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Michelle Simonal,
June Days,
Freddie Wadling,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Searchers,
The Kinks,
Duran Duran,
Wolf Eyes,
Quantec,
Urselle,
The Smiths,
Scan 7,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Whodini,
Delta 5,
Popol Vuh,
Mars,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Frankie Knuckles,
Model 500,
Ten City,
Vladislav Delay,
Parry Music,
Joensuu 1685,
The Cowsills,
Idris Muhammad,
Pussy Galore,
Interpol,
Alison Limerick,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bluetip,
Shoche,
New Age Steppers,
Au Pairs,
Scion,
Second Layer,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.