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 Argentina and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Bootsy Collins,
Tomorrow,
DNA,
Slick Rick,
Lightning Bolt,
John Lydon,
Morten Harket,
KRS-One,
Darondo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Radiohead,
Theoretical Girls,
Severed Heads,
The Wake,
Shoche,
The Young Rascals,
Max Romeo,
Groovy Waters,
Basic Channel,
The Mojo Men,
Sister Nancy,
Loose Ends,
K-Klass,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Letta Mbulu,
Oneida,
Unrelated Segments,
Funky Four + One,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Scion,
Intrusion,
Wasted Youth,
Deepchord,
China Crisis,
Sparks,
The Real Kids,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Boz Scaggs,
Toni Rubio,
The Count Five,
Sixth Finger,
Crash Course in Science,
E-Dancer,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Anthony Braxton,
Newcleus,
the Soft Cell,
Goldenarms,
Procol Harum,
Cymande,
Bill Wells,
The Seeds,
Television,
The Names,
Stiv Bators,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
These Immortal Souls,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.