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 Mauritania and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Marshall Jefferson to the rock 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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff 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 electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Raincoats,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Brass Construction,
Lalann,
Urselle,
Thompson Twins,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Doors,
Ohio Players,
DJ Style,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rufus Thomas,
Eddi Front,
Sexual Harrassment,
Yusef Lateef,
John Foxx,
Au Pairs,
The Smiths,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Red Krayola,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Don Cherry,
Ronnie Foster,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Sonics,
a-ha,
Adolescents,
X-101,
Oblivians,
Mo-Dettes,
the Sonics,
Newcleus,
Smog,
The Fugs,
Junior Murvin,
Magma,
Section 25,
Quadrant,
Alton Ellis,
Tubeway Army,
Glenn Branca,
Ponytail,
Sarah Menescal,
Panda Bear,
Dark Day,
Excepter,
Peter & Gordon,
Alison Limerick,
Basic Channel,
Kas Product,
Sandy B,
Sex Pistols,
The Pop Group,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kenny Larkin,
Crime,
Accadde A,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.