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 Iceland and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ 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 Kerri Chandler to the rap 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Popol Vuh,
Nirvana,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Barracudas,
Scratch Acid,
The Beau Brummels,
Aural Exciters,
Pantytec,
Carl Craig,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Alison Limerick,
The Smiths,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gang Starr,
FM Einheit,
Lou Christie,
Sugar Minott,
L. Decosne,
Johnny Clarke,
The Black Dice,
Livin' Joy,
Sarah Menescal,
The Velvet Underground,
This Heat,
Swans,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ten City,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hashim,
Lucky Dragons,
Tropical Tobacco,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
KRS-One,
The Invisible,
Motorama,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Skatalites,
Leonard Cohen,
The Evens,
Kaleidoscope,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Scan 7,
Slave,
The Searchers,
Make Up,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Arthur Verocai,
Barry Ungar,
Freddie Wadling,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Music Machine,
The Zeros,
Echospace,
Derrick May,
48th St. Collective,
Audionom,
The Names,
Deepchord,
Khruangbin,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Saints, The Saints, The Saints, The Saints.
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.