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 Bhutan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 Rosa Yemen to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Yazoo,
Todd Terry,
The Star Department,
Mary Jane Girls,
Zero Boys,
DJ Sneak,
Jesper Dahlback,
Warsaw,
Trumans Water,
Sugar Minott,
The Red Krayola,
Drive Like Jehu,
UT,
The Buckinghams,
D'Angelo,
Pantaleimon,
Pagans,
Moby Grape,
Avey Tare,
New Age Steppers,
Amon Düül II,
Bootsy Collins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Toasters,
Skriet,
Nils Olav,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soulsonic Force,
The Busters,
Joy Division,
T. Rex,
Neil Young,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Yellowson,
The Count Five,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rotary Connection,
Echospace,
Schoolly D,
Bobby Sherman,
The J.B.'s,
Chrome,
Scan 7,
Bluetip,
Arcadia,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Theoretical Girls,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grey Daturas,
The Happenings,
Parry Music,
Bobby Byrd,
Lou Reed,
Funkadelic,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Knickerbockers,
The Offenders,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Carl Craig,
Harmonia,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.