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 Ecuador and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 organ 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 Ralphi Rosario to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Index. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Swans,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scion,
Nation of Ulysses,
Underground Resistance,
Lee Hazlewood,
Wings,
FM Einheit,
Tomorrow,
Heaven 17,
Fluxion,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kevin Saunderson,
Blancmange,
Lalann,
Gastr Del Sol,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
La Düsseldorf,
The Wake,
Robert Wyatt,
Idris Muhammad,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Glenn Branca,
Audionom,
Mantronix,
Sun Ra,
Eurythmics,
Depeche Mode,
Y Pants,
Freddie Wadling,
Sun City Girls,
Shuggie Otis,
The Skatalites,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Groovy Waters,
Carl Craig,
Camouflage,
Bootsy Collins,
Dead Boys,
Agitation Free,
The Gories,
Qualms,
Connie Case,
Hashim,
Banda Bassotti,
Quando Quango,
Scott Walker,
Au Pairs,
Fela Kuti,
A Certain Ratio,
Toni Rubio,
Oblivians,
Aaron Thompson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Trumans Water,
Scratch Acid,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gang Green,
Ten City,
Marmalade,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wasted Youth,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.