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 Azerbaijan and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Slits to the funk 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Soul Sonic Force,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gang of Four,
Ultra Naté,
Ralphi Rosario,
Interpol,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Kinks,
Simply Red,
Supertramp,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Buckinghams,
MDC,
Lou Reed,
Dual Sessions,
ABC,
Das Ding,
Nation of Ulysses,
Oneida,
Bad Manners,
Radiohead,
Sound Behaviour,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
JFA,
Kaleidoscope,
Bill Wells,
Lightning Bolt,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kerri Chandler,
Livin' Joy,
Young Marble Giants,
Aswad,
John Lydon,
Pantytec,
Colin Newman,
Tropical Tobacco,
10cc,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Stiv Bators,
Mark Hollis,
Barry Ungar,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Piero Umiliani,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Negative Approach,
Bronski Beat,
The Busters,
Q and Not U,
Audionom,
Monolake,
The Selecter,
Visage,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Flipper,
The Searchers,
Eddi Front,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Dead Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.