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 South Africa and from Sao Paulo.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Madrid.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 The Real Kids to the punk 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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Alison Limerick,
The Kinks,
Average White Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tim Buckley,
The Music Machine,
10cc,
the Soft Cell,
Blossom Toes,
Peter and Kerry,
Tom Boy,
Bill Wells,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Gun Club,
Judy Mowatt,
Symarip,
Lungfish,
The Fall,
Spandau Ballet,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mary Jane Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang of Four,
Neil Young,
New Age Steppers,
The Evens,
Stetsasonic,
Dark Day,
Skaos,
X-102,
Kayak,
Gang Gang Dance,
Anthony Braxton,
The Flesh Eaters,
Grandmaster Flash,
Make Up,
Sun Ra,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ken Boothe,
Spoonie Gee,
Soft Machine,
Agent Orange,
Visage,
The Pop Group,
Radiopuhelimet,
Colin Newman,
Juan Atkins,
Johnny Clarke,
Royal Trux,
Ossler,
Hasil Adkins,
Joy Division,
Thompson Twins,
Eden Ahbez,
Piero Umiliani,
Sarah Menescal,
Monolake,
In Retrospect,
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You don't know what you really want.
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