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 Kosovo and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Yaz to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues 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?
Johnny Clarke,
Essential Logic,
The Happenings,
Tres Demented,
The Red Krayola,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Busters,
OOIOO,
Heaven 17,
Todd Rundgren,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Swans,
LL Cool J,
The Names,
Main Source,
Theoretical Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Howard Jones,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Banda Bassotti,
Joy Division,
The Five Americans,
Janne Schatter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Walker Brothers,
Funky Four + One,
Juan Atkins,
The Gun Club,
Jandek,
The Searchers,
ABBA,
Donny Hathaway,
Intrusion,
Echospace,
Danielle Patucci,
Graham Central Station,
Kaleidoscope,
Von Mondo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Sonics,
X-101,
Erasure,
Crash Course in Science,
Funkadelic,
John Foxx,
The Skatalites,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Boz Scaggs,
The Martian,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Divine Comedy,
Todd Terry,
Babytalk,
UT,
Guru Guru,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Charles Mingus,
Brothers Johnson,
10cc,
Public Enemy,
June of 44,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.