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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 arpeggiator 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the dance 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
Tom Boy,
Hardrive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erykah Badu,
Wolf Eyes,
The Barracudas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sarah Menescal,
U.S. Maple,
Throbbing Gristle,
Suicide,
Inner City,
The Star Department,
Ralphi Rosario,
Shoche,
Lalo Schifrin,
Von Mondo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alphaville,
New York Dolls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
LL Cool J,
Stiv Bators,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Grass Roots,
Rakim,
Glenn Branca,
Moebius,
Alice Coltrane,
Johnny Osbourne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Black Sheep,
Yusef Lateef,
Whodini,
Lyres,
The Doobie Brothers,
This Heat,
Banda Bassotti,
Q and Not U,
Zero Boys,
Byron Stingily,
Chris & Cosey,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lower 48,
Drexciya,
Sugar Minott,
The Angels of Light,
Howard Jones,
The Pop Group,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Misunderstood,
The Moleskins,
Radio Birdman,
Eli Mardock,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sonic Youth,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.