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 New Zealand and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 theremin 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 Stereo Dub to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Bizarre Inc.,
Deepchord,
Wally Richardson,
Easy Going,
Essential Logic,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Fire Engines,
Alphaville,
Neil Young,
Flipper,
Spoonie Gee,
Television Personalities,
Liliput,
June of 44,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Stooges,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Godley & Creme,
Average White Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Patti Smith,
Lucky Dragons,
Cecil Taylor,
The Music Machine,
Fad Gadget,
Grey Daturas,
Magma,
James White and The Blacks,
Ponytail,
Motorama,
The Invisible,
MC5,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pere Ubu,
Graham Central Station,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Young Rascals,
KRS-One,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Erykah Badu,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Mo-Dettes,
Roger Hodgson,
Crime,
Faust,
The Litter,
The Fortunes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Peter and Kerry,
Throbbing Gristle,
Delta 5,
Nick Fraelich,
Outsiders,
Rites of Spring,
EPMD,
Niagra,
Rhythm & Sound,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.