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 Colombia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Amazonics to the rap 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Leonard Cohen,
Kurtis Blow,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Skriet,
Matthew Bourne,
Half Japanese,
Country Teasers,
Spandau Ballet,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Theoretical Girls,
X-101,
Popol Vuh,
Pulsallama,
Spoonie Gee,
Peter and Kerry,
Unrelated Segments,
Gil Scott Heron,
Yazoo,
Pet Shop Boys,
T. Rex,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
La Düsseldorf,
Fad Gadget,
Freddie Wadling,
Pussy Galore,
DJ Style,
Jerry's Kids,
London Community Gospel Choir,
KRS-One,
Agent Orange,
Lee Hazlewood,
Chris Corsano,
Black Moon,
Los Fastidios,
JFA,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Niagra,
MDC,
Urselle,
The Techniques,
Susan Cadogan,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Barbara Tucker,
Amon Düül II,
Letta Mbulu,
The Red Krayola,
Au Pairs,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jeff Lynne,
Funky Four + One,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
James White and The Blacks,
Average White Band,
Pole,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Silicon Teens,
The American Breed,
Royal Trux,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sixth Finger,
Rites of Spring,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.