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 Tanzania and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 New Order to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
Todd Terry,
Wally Richardson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fatback Band,
Cybotron,
PIL,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
World's Most,
Con Funk Shun,
Erykah Badu,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Monochrome Set,
Y Pants,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Boz Scaggs,
Ituana,
Johnny Clarke,
Lalo Schifrin,
Excepter,
Vladislav Delay,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lou Christie,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
8 Eyed Spy,
Wings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Misunderstood,
Masters at Work,
LL Cool J,
Youth Brigade,
The Birthday Party,
Stetsasonic,
Motorama,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
K-Klass,
The Kinks,
Susan Cadogan,
China Crisis,
The Cure,
The Knickerbockers,
Jawbox,
Oneida,
Ultra Naté,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scott Walker,
Blancmange,
Tommy Roe,
Barbara Tucker,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Avey Tare,
X-Ray Spex,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Judy Mowatt,
Wolf Eyes,
Dave Gahan,
Jacques Brel,
Alton Ellis,
T.S.O.L.,
Tomorrow,
Monks, Monks, Monks, Monks.
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.