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 Korea South and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Halifax and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 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 Bluetip to the disco 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 The Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Babytalk,
Kool Moe Dee,
Boz Scaggs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Japan,
The Residents,
The Searchers,
Fear,
Groovy Waters,
Silicon Teens,
LL Cool J,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Intrusion,
Davy DMX,
Zero Boys,
Subhumans,
Arcadia,
Jeru the Damaja,
Scrapy,
June of 44,
The Sound,
Terry Callier,
KRS-One,
Dennis Brown,
The Cramps,
The Standells,
Sonny Sharrock,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Shuggie Otis,
Bang On A Can,
Sarah Menescal,
Lungfish,
The Modern Lovers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bobby Womack,
New Age Steppers,
The Moleskins,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sonic Youth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Brass Construction,
Visage,
Mark Hollis,
Model 500,
The Gories,
Barry Ungar,
This Heat,
The Names,
Piero Umiliani,
10cc,
Gang Gang Dance,
Peter & Gordon,
Scientists,
Deepchord,
The Gun Club,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DJ Sneak,
Todd Rundgren,
The Velvet Underground,
Neil Young,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.