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 Croatia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kas Product to the punk 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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt 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 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Lalann,
Fugazi,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Parry Music,
Glenn Branca,
OOIOO,
Iggy Pop,
Maleditus Sound,
ABBA,
La Düsseldorf,
Theoretical Girls,
The Zeros,
E-Dancer,
the Sonics,
The Selecter,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lou Reed,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Todd Terry,
Minor Threat,
Marshall Jefferson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Faust,
Barry Ungar,
Skarface,
The Saints,
Morten Harket,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sun Ra,
Liliput,
Maurizio,
Television Personalities,
Ten City,
Lungfish,
The Seeds,
Girls At Our Best!,
Fela Kuti,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Accadde A,
The Skatalites,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Derrick May,
The Shadows of Knight,
Harmonia,
Idris Muhammad,
Massinfluence,
John Holt,
Eric Dolphy,
the Soft Cell,
The Flesh Eaters,
Trumans Water,
Ponytail,
Outsiders,
Swell Maps,
Drive Like Jehu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
UT,
Metal Thangz,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.