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 Latvia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Liliput to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Patti Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Pantytec,
Bobby Sherman,
Dave Gahan,
The Gories,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Massinfluence,
Reuben Wilson,
Aloha Tigers,
Hardrive,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Real Kids,
Deadbeat,
Whodini,
Urselle,
Brothers Johnson,
Grey Daturas,
Nik Kershaw,
Hashim,
KRS-One,
Carl Craig,
Boredoms,
The Leaves,
T.S.O.L.,
Iggy Pop,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Model 500,
Bauhaus,
Electric Prunes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crash Course in Science,
Mad Mike,
The Motions,
Sugar Minott,
Minor Threat,
Ten City,
DNA,
Jacob Miller,
Newcleus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Porter Ricks,
The Zeros,
Trumans Water,
Marc Almond,
Dark Day,
Amazonics,
Visage,
The Monochrome Set,
Black Bananas,
Talk Talk,
The Misunderstood,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Divine Comedy,
Derrick May,
Lower 48,
The Litter,
Mark Hollis,
John Foxx,
Kurtis Blow,
F. McDonald,
Goldenarms,
Jacques Brel,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.