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 Brazil and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Deakin to the jazz 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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Pantaleimon,
Unrelated Segments,
Goldenarms,
Skaos,
The Names,
Deepchord,
The United States of America,
the Germs,
Mo-Dettes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Main Source,
Crispy Ambulance,
Flipper,
Banda Bassotti,
Nas,
The Toasters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
H. Thieme,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The American Breed,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flash Fearless,
New York Dolls,
Colin Newman,
Derrick May,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Todd Terry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marc Almond,
The Gories,
DNA,
the Swans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Animal Collective,
Kool Moe Dee,
Spandau Ballet,
Judy Mowatt,
K-Klass,
The Slackers,
Zero Boys,
Second Layer,
Dead Boys,
Youth Brigade,
Matthew Halsall,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cecil Taylor,
Panda Bear,
Trumans Water,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Velvet Underground,
UT,
Cameo,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rufus Thomas,
Accadde A,
David Bowie,
Essential Logic,
Crispian St. Peters,
Franke,
Minnie Riperton,
The Saints,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.