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 Qatar and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Black Flag to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crime,
Eric Dolphy,
Jacques Brel,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Evens,
Gang Green,
Alice Coltrane,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
R.M.O.,
Moby Grape,
The Velvet Underground,
Glenn Branca,
Isaac Hayes,
Fad Gadget,
10cc,
Kurtis Blow,
Make Up,
The Electric Prunes,
Visage,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Fortunes,
Fatback Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Siglo XX,
Black Bananas,
Accadde A,
Suicide,
The Beau Brummels,
Skarface,
Carl Craig,
a-ha,
Aswad,
Country Teasers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Surgeon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mission of Burma,
the Association,
Oblivians,
The Music Machine,
Slave,
Peter & Gordon,
The Tremeloes,
Cameo,
Albert Ayler,
The Flesh Eaters,
Subhumans,
L. Decosne,
Darondo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Marcia Griffiths,
Flash Fearless,
Kerri Chandler,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Saccharine Trust,
Jerry's Kids,
Reagan Youth,
Yusef Lateef,
The Walker Brothers,
Quadrant,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.