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 Gabon and from Winnipeg.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 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 Outsiders to the electroclash 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rahsaan Roland Kirk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric B and Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
Moebius,
Alton Ellis,
The Flesh Eaters,
Wings,
Godley & Creme,
The Count Five,
David McCallum,
Connie Case,
X-102,
Au Pairs,
The Knickerbockers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bang On A Can,
Soft Cell,
T. Rex,
Franke,
Unwound,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Shoche,
The Modern Lovers,
Altered Images,
Boogie Down Productions,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Happenings,
Vainqueur,
OOIOO,
Maleditus Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
the Sonics,
Mandrill,
Kayak,
One Last Wish,
Patti Smith,
Lightning Bolt,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Zero Boys,
Little Man,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Donny Hathaway,
LL Cool J,
Accadde A,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Gladiators,
These Immortal Souls,
Y Pants,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wire,
Faust,
Heaven 17,
John Lydon,
Prince Buster,
Gerry Rafferty,
Masters at Work,
Iggy Pop,
Niagra,
Livin' Joy,
Anakelly,
The Raincoats,
Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys, Pet Shop Boys.
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.