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 Gabon and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Sugar Minott to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Second Layer,
Glambeats Corp.,
Blancmange,
Ludus,
The Music Machine,
James White and The Blacks,
UT,
Gang Green,
Accadde A,
Gichy Dan,
The Busters,
Anthony Braxton,
Shuggie Otis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Carl Craig,
The Grass Roots,
Banda Bassotti,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tres Demented,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Boredoms,
Masters at Work,
Can,
The Mummies,
MC5,
Unrelated Segments,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Toni Rubio,
The Neon Judgement,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Skaos,
Pierre Henry,
The Remains,
The Saints,
The Trojans,
Radio Birdman,
Popol Vuh,
Funkadelic,
Sight & Sound,
The Gap Band,
Rapeman,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Black Pus,
Marmalade,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sixth Finger,
Graham Central Station,
The Dead C,
The Raincoats,
Jacob Miller,
Soulsonic Force,
Tim Buckley,
KRS-One,
EPMD,
Soft Cell,
China Crisis,
Agent Orange,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.