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 Croatia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Houston.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Vladislav Delay to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin 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 arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Youth Brigade,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Blackbyrds,
The Zeros,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marshall Jefferson,
Echospace,
Marcia Griffiths,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-Ray Spex,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Oneida,
JFA,
The Grass Roots,
Alton Ellis,
The Skatalites,
Amon Düül II,
Iggy Pop,
Sun City Girls,
Bobby Womack,
Toni Rubio,
Banda Bassotti,
Albert Ayler,
The Techniques,
Sonny Sharrock,
Todd Terry,
PIL,
Freddie Wadling,
Infiniti,
Lou Christie,
Vladislav Delay,
Shuggie Otis,
Underground Resistance,
Sparks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pantaleimon,
Unrelated Segments,
Wally Richardson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Terry Callier,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
David Bowie,
Judy Mowatt,
FM Einheit,
DJ Style,
The Angels of Light,
One Last Wish,
Radiohead,
New Age Steppers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Delta 5,
Buzzcocks,
Motorama,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.