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 Indonesia and from Philadelphia.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Sight & Sound to the dance 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Panda Bear,
Babytalk,
Sällskapet,
PIL,
The Cure,
Jeff Mills,
the Germs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minny Pops,
R.M.O.,
Fatback Band,
Stetsasonic,
The United States of America,
The Last Poets,
Pylon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Altered Images,
Rapeman,
Michelle Simonal,
Rites of Spring,
the Bar-Kays,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Symarip,
48th St. Collective,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Magma,
Jerry's Kids,
Hardrive,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Busters,
The Detroit Cobras,
Crooked Eye,
Joensuu 1685,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Stiv Bators,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Isaac Hayes,
Smog,
The Pop Group,
Hashim,
Groovy Waters,
Kas Product,
U.S. Maple,
The Dirtbombs,
F. McDonald,
Pantaleimon,
Erykah Badu,
In Retrospect,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Standells,
Con Funk Shun,
The Techniques,
Livin' Joy,
The Misunderstood,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Rakim,
Donny Hathaway,
Au Pairs,
Brothers Johnson,
Loose Ends,
Eric Copeland,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.