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 France and from Seoul.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum 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 Unrelated Segments to the jazz 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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Soft Machine,
Isaac Hayes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Tropical Tobacco,
Alphaville,
Television,
Simply Red,
Robert Wyatt,
Pantaleimon,
Q65,
Rapeman,
Jacques Brel,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Grauzone,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Loose Ends,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Stiv Bators,
Spoonie Gee,
Sound Behaviour,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sight & Sound,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roxy Music,
Derrick Morgan,
Eric Dolphy,
Neu!,
Junior Murvin,
Quantec,
Ice-T,
Hashim,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Derrick May,
Matthew Halsall,
The Pretty Things,
Brand Nubian,
Peter & Gordon,
Cal Tjader,
Marmalade,
Delta 5,
Morten Harket,
The Blackbyrds,
Minor Threat,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Invisible,
Bill Near,
Electric Prunes,
Deepchord,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kaleidoscope,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Altered Images,
Can,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Spandau Ballet,
Scrapy,
Motorama,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
China Crisis,
Janne Schatter,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.