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 Bhutan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Technova to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Chris Corsano. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Robert Görl,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sällskapet,
Juan Atkins,
Amazonics,
Erasure,
Circle Jerks,
Tomorrow,
Arcadia,
Vladislav Delay,
Byron Stingily,
David Axelrod,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Slits,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Alarm Clocks,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Gap Band,
Deepchord,
Buzzcocks,
Cheater Slicks,
Ornette Coleman,
Silicon Teens,
Ultravox,
Bobby Hutcherson,
A Certain Ratio,
K-Klass,
Hot Snakes,
Sandy B,
Todd Terry,
Los Fastidios,
Boz Scaggs,
Eric Dolphy,
Siglo XX,
Tommy Roe,
The Zeros,
H. Thieme,
Amon Düül II,
Alton Ellis,
Lightning Bolt,
Mandrill,
Franke,
Guru Guru,
Das Ding,
Banda Bassotti,
Echospace,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Dead Boys,
Interpol,
R.M.O.,
The Invisible,
Joey Negro,
Duran Duran,
Minny Pops,
Mark Hollis,
Lou Reed,
Fugazi,
Laurel Aitken,
Cameo,
Kaleidoscope,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.