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 San Marino and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 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 Andrew Hill to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Eric Copeland,
The Flesh Eaters,
ABBA,
The Moleskins,
Flash Fearless,
Subhumans,
E-Dancer,
Marc Almond,
The Wake,
Aaron Thompson,
Grey Daturas,
Schoolly D,
Nils Olav,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Essential Logic,
Theoretical Girls,
Mantronix,
Public Enemy,
Harmonia,
Groovy Waters,
Scratch Acid,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Harry Pussy,
The Fugs,
Zapp,
Janne Schatter,
the Slits,
Hardrive,
Drive Like Jehu,
Half Japanese,
The Smiths,
Archie Shepp,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Mission of Burma,
Massinfluence,
Negative Approach,
The Motions,
Smog,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minor Threat,
Sparks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Max Romeo,
Banda Bassotti,
Soft Cell,
The Human League,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Stiv Bators,
Easy Going,
The Knickerbockers,
Ice-T,
The Vogues,
Deepchord,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Monolake,
Flipper,
Al Stewart,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.