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 Tonga and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 güiro 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 cv313 to the electroclash 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 Jeru the Damaja. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Carl Craig,
Deadbeat,
Alison Limerick,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Warsaw,
Eli Mardock,
Ponytail,
Crooked Eye,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Bar-Kays,
Fatback Band,
Slave,
Barclay James Harvest,
Radiohead,
Fear,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Unwound,
Rotary Connection,
Dave Gahan,
Von Mondo,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Reuben Wilson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Joe Finger,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mantronix,
Urselle,
Visage,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ken Boothe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Faraquet,
Fad Gadget,
Soft Cell,
Pylon,
The Trojans,
The Happenings,
Oblivians,
Rekid,
Barrington Levy,
Ohio Players,
Khruangbin,
Cecil Taylor,
Marshall Jefferson,
Motorama,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Flipper,
Brick,
Silicon Teens,
Sound Behaviour,
Quadrant,
Quantec,
Dawn Penn,
Skaos,
The Mojo Men,
Ossler,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.