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 Turkmenistan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 808 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 Audionom to the crunk 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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gong record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
The Vogues,
Reuben Wilson,
Wolf Eyes,
a-ha,
The J.B.'s,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Simply Red,
Sound Behaviour,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Avey Tare,
Lou Christie,
Soul Sonic Force,
Khruangbin,
K-Klass,
Franke,
John Cale,
Man Parrish,
Eric Copeland,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Index,
Isaac Hayes,
Thee Headcoats,
The Associates,
The Barracudas,
Kayak,
John Holt,
Bill Wells,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Derrick May,
Jerry's Kids,
Soul II Soul,
Kurtis Blow,
Donny Hathaway,
Mary Jane Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ken Boothe,
Michelle Simonal,
Pylon,
Black Bananas,
Funkadelic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marc Almond,
Japan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Searchers,
The Invisible,
Joyce Sims,
Pulsallama,
The Red Krayola,
the Soft Cell,
Flipper,
Kerri Chandler,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
MDC,
Y Pants,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.