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 Germany and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Red Krayola to the techno 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Coltrane,
X-102,
Wasted Youth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Divine Comedy,
The Moleskins,
Silicon Teens,
Sun City Girls,
The Sonics,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Residents,
Kas Product,
Robert Hood,
James White and The Blacks,
Main Source,
It's A Beautiful Day,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hot Snakes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eden Ahbez,
Bronski Beat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alphaville,
The Red Krayola,
Anakelly,
Al Stewart,
Glenn Branca,
Gong,
Sarah Menescal,
Fluxion,
OOIOO,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Audionom,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minnie Riperton,
Young Marble Giants,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Angry Samoans,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Brand Nubian,
Arcadia,
Eric Dolphy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Amon Düül,
Lightning Bolt,
The Slits,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Altered Images,
Jawbox,
Sonny Sharrock,
Nico,
Organ,
The Vogues,
Desert Stars,
Marine Girls,
Crime,
Q65,
Robert Görl,
Au Pairs,
The Associates,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.