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 Ghana and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 One Last Wish to the techno 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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
OOIOO,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soulsonic Force,
KRS-One,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The J.B.'s,
Kurtis Blow,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The United States of America,
Procol Harum,
Beasts of Bourbon,
LL Cool J,
Gang of Four,
Girls At Our Best!,
Minny Pops,
Ultra Naté,
The Wake,
Talk Talk,
Rapeman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marshall Jefferson,
R.M.O.,
The Mummies,
T. Rex,
John Coltrane,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Sonics,
Loose Ends,
Andrew Hill,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Sound,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Visage,
Nation of Ulysses,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Groovy Waters,
Tom Boy,
Funky Four + One,
Brothers Johnson,
Erasure,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
48th St. Collective,
The Raincoats,
Fela Kuti,
Quando Quango,
Tomorrow,
Khruangbin,
Niagra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Guru Guru,
Zapp,
Unrelated Segments,
Alice Coltrane,
Jeff Mills,
Yazoo,
Dennis Brown,
Ludus,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.