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 Vietnam and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Soft Cell to the funk 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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cure 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?
Gong,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Basic Channel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Funkadelic,
Minny Pops,
Barbara Tucker,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Cure,
Johnny Osbourne,
Steve Hackett,
Jandek,
The Residents,
Symarip,
U.S. Maple,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Association,
The New Christs,
Popol Vuh,
Delta 5,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scion,
Angry Samoans,
X-102,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Index,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Throbbing Gristle,
Tears for Fears,
Barclay James Harvest,
Clear Light,
Terry Callier,
Livin' Joy,
EPMD,
Black Sheep,
Audionom,
Crispian St. Peters,
These Immortal Souls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Aloha Tigers,
Spandau Ballet,
Minor Threat,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Echospace,
Morten Harket,
Cecil Taylor,
ABBA,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bobby Womack,
Slick Rick,
Roy Ayers,
Shoche,
R.M.O.,
Alphaville,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Deakin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.