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 Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Warren Ellis to the rock 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Monks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Leaves,
Rotary Connection,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alton Ellis,
Drexciya,
Supertramp,
Gang Gang Dance,
Television Personalities,
Michelle Simonal,
the Bar-Kays,
Tears for Fears,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Connie Case,
Jeff Mills,
These Immortal Souls,
EPMD,
F. McDonald,
Basic Channel,
Loose Ends,
Carl Craig,
Johnny Osbourne,
Todd Terry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sun Ra,
Sarah Menescal,
Ponytail,
Arcadia,
Suburban Knight,
Lower 48,
Grey Daturas,
Sällskapet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Index,
Avey Tare,
The United States of America,
Rites of Spring,
Aural Exciters,
The Real Kids,
Kaleidoscope,
John Cale,
the Association,
Pantaleimon,
The Dave Clark Five,
John Holt,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Human League,
The Motions,
Quadrant,
Electric Prunes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Accadde A,
Charles Mingus,
The Barracudas,
Nirvana,
Kerri Chandler,
The Searchers,
The Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.