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 Germany and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer 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 PIL to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
The United States of America,
Goldenarms,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fela Kuti,
Siglo XX,
Tomorrow,
The Gories,
Scan 7,
Judy Mowatt,
Ten City,
Yusef Lateef,
Man Parrish,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soft Cell,
Nas,
Rosa Yemen,
Mr. Review,
Grey Daturas,
Marcia Griffiths,
Blake Baxter,
Tropical Tobacco,
Interpol,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Connie Case,
New Age Steppers,
Stetsasonic,
Liliput,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sound Behaviour,
Second Layer,
Thee Headcoats,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Selecter,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Star Department,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rhythm & Sound,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Radiohead,
This Heat,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Zeros,
The Move,
UT,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Mummies,
Sonic Youth,
Gang Gang Dance,
Index,
The Buckinghams,
Bill Wells,
Wings,
Q and Not U,
Arab on Radar,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.