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 Kenya and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Gories to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
The Index,
Animal Collective,
The Count Five,
Magma,
Ultravox,
Chris & Cosey,
X-101,
Kevin Saunderson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kerri Chandler,
Unrelated Segments,
Nick Fraelich,
MDC,
Flash Fearless,
Little Man,
Camberwell Now,
Thee Headcoats,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gichy Dan,
The Raincoats,
Rites of Spring,
Camouflage,
Mark Hollis,
The Slits,
Soul Sonic Force,
Howard Jones,
Basic Channel,
Nation of Ulysses,
Godley & Creme,
Bobby Byrd,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sparks,
Spoonie Gee,
Big Daddy Kane,
Avey Tare,
The Vogues,
The Smiths,
The Black Dice,
R.M.O.,
Sarah Menescal,
New York Dolls,
Moby Grape,
ABC,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Iggy Pop,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scientists,
Quando Quango,
The Gun Club,
Jimmy McGriff,
Interpol,
The Dead C,
Eddi Front,
Intrusion,
The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps.
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.