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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Gap Band to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Modern Lovers,
The Misunderstood,
Unrelated Segments,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Zero Boys,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ken Boothe,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fad Gadget,
Tres Demented,
Siglo XX,
Frankie Knuckles,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Yellowson,
The Offenders,
Quantec,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Magazine,
Glambeats Corp.,
Susan Cadogan,
Electric Prunes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Loose Ends,
Dawn Penn,
Cheater Slicks,
Godley & Creme,
Roxy Music,
Minutemen,
Aural Exciters,
Quando Quango,
Youth Brigade,
Joyce Sims,
Matthew Bourne,
The Saints,
Pantaleimon,
Easy Going,
The New Christs,
Crispy Ambulance,
Spoonie Gee,
Stetsasonic,
Blake Baxter,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Gun Club,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Suicide,
Cabaret Voltaire,
E-Dancer,
The Selecter,
Be Bop Deluxe,
David Axelrod,
Eric Copeland,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
James White and The Blacks,
Parry Music,
Mandrill,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.