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 Uruguay and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 arpeggiator 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 Joy Division to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lyres,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Drexciya,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Average White Band,
Stetsasonic,
Boredoms,
Scientists,
Angry Samoans,
Urselle,
Eric B and Rakim,
Crash Course in Science,
Buzzcocks,
The Barracudas,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Young Rascals,
La Düsseldorf,
Delta 5,
The Doors,
Bizarre Inc.,
Alton Ellis,
Darondo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ralphi Rosario,
Maurizio,
Das Ding,
Tears for Fears,
the Swans,
Rekid,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Al Stewart,
John Holt,
Dave Gahan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tubeway Army,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Zero Boys,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scion,
D'Angelo,
The Gap Band,
Con Funk Shun,
Grandmaster Flash,
Peter and Kerry,
Pantaleimon,
Toni Rubio,
The Happenings,
Susan Cadogan,
Index,
Althea and Donna,
Outsiders,
the Bar-Kays,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Modern Lovers,
The Electric Prunes,
The Cure,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.