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 Jordan and from Hong Kong.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Josef K to the techno 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 Country Teasers. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Yusef Lateef,
Cecil Taylor,
Aaron Thompson,
Delta 5,
Television Personalities,
Skarface,
Unwound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Susan Cadogan,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Stooges,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
John Foxx,
Sällskapet,
Flash Fearless,
Lalo Schifrin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grauzone,
the Association,
Rakim,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Archie Shepp,
Blancmange,
Joensuu 1685,
Radiohead,
Spoonie Gee,
Essential Logic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Kinks,
Erasure,
D'Angelo,
MC5,
Yellowson,
Circle Jerks,
The Fugs,
Depeche Mode,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bill Near,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Blackbyrds,
Cameo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Stetsasonic,
Talk Talk,
H. Thieme,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mantronix,
Bush Tetras,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scott Walker,
Average White Band,
The Young Rascals,
Moebius,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Babytalk,
Thompson Twins,
Wire,
Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd.
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.