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 Moldova and from Taipei.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Maurizio to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fat Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Idris Muhammad,
CMW,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Index,
Jesper Dahlback,
Parry Music,
Letta Mbulu,
Section 25,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Monochrome Set,
The Toasters,
Tropical Tobacco,
Deepchord,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marmalade,
The Sound,
Crooked Eye,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
MC5,
Tim Buckley,
Mr. Review,
Ralphi Rosario,
Funkadelic,
Warsaw,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Main Source,
Kerri Chandler,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rekid,
Danielle Patucci,
Sun Ra,
Japan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
EPMD,
Soft Cell,
The Dirtbombs,
Suburban Knight,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Depeche Mode,
Aural Exciters,
Sixth Finger,
Public Enemy,
Ronnie Foster,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Zeros,
Quando Quango,
Eli Mardock,
Sam Rivers,
Urselle,
Blancmange,
The Remains,
Jeff Mills,
The Flesh Eaters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sandy B,
Kas Product,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lakeside,
Crispian St. Peters,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.