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 Afghanistan and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Visage to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Chris & Cosey,
Y Pants,
Arab on Radar,
Vainqueur,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Divine Comedy,
Howard Jones,
Al Stewart,
Johnny Clarke,
The Techniques,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
ABC,
Freddie Wadling,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Names,
The Litter,
Black Bananas,
Lindisfarne,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Schoolly D,
Lou Christie,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Steve Hackett,
Robert Hood,
Lee Hazlewood,
John Holt,
EPMD,
The Raincoats,
The Mojo Men,
Eli Mardock,
Archie Shepp,
The Victims,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Real Kids,
Cheater Slicks,
Janne Schatter,
Nico,
China Crisis,
David Axelrod,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Delta 5,
The Shadows of Knight,
Prince Buster,
The Grass Roots,
Thee Headcoats,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pylon,
The Cure,
Tomorrow,
The Young Rascals,
Inner City,
Blake Baxter,
The Music Machine,
Scrapy,
kango's stein massive,
Patti Smith,
The Residents,
ABBA,
The Skatalites,
Soulsonic Force,
Model 500,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.