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 Benin and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 cv313 to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 UT. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Colin Newman,
Lee Hazlewood,
Popol Vuh,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Oblivians,
The Leaves,
Black Bananas,
The Golliwogs,
Throbbing Gristle,
Aswad,
Michelle Simonal,
48th St. Collective,
Crispy Ambulance,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Yaz,
Mo-Dettes,
Procol Harum,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Yazoo,
ABC,
The Modern Lovers,
Brand Nubian,
Animal Collective,
The Buckinghams,
Wire,
Magma,
Surgeon,
Country Teasers,
The Durutti Column,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cybotron,
The Mojo Men,
Second Layer,
Severed Heads,
Scion,
Monolake,
Letta Mbulu,
Das Ding,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Harmonia,
Blancmange,
Bobby Womack,
Rakim,
Johnny Clarke,
The Doors,
Schoolly D,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Josef K,
DJ Sneak,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rufus Thomas,
John Cale,
The Index,
Lower 48,
Gabor Szabo,
Neil Young,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gang of Four,
Sonic Youth,
The Neon Judgement,
Bang On A Can,
Chris & Cosey,
Radiohead,
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.