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 Guatemala and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb 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 Flash Fearless to the funk 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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Amon Düül,
Peter & Gordon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hashim,
Buzzcocks,
Kayak,
Q and Not U,
Mr. Review,
the Swans,
Easy Going,
Aaron Thompson,
The Flesh Eaters,
Joensuu 1685,
Fluxion,
Grauzone,
The Trojans,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rotary Connection,
Quadrant,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
48th St. Collective,
Idris Muhammad,
Procol Harum,
Clear Light,
Lee Hazlewood,
Grey Daturas,
Con Funk Shun,
Dennis Brown,
Rekid,
Hasil Adkins,
Rosa Yemen,
Lalann,
PIL,
Albert Ayler,
The Stooges,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Von Mondo,
Alison Limerick,
Don Cherry,
Mary Jane Girls,
Dead Boys,
Swans,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Warren Ellis,
Faraquet,
Malaria!,
Scott Walker,
The Buckinghams,
The Blackbyrds,
Deadbeat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pussy Galore,
The Busters,
Arab on Radar,
Urselle,
Index,
The Misunderstood,
Skarface,
The Slackers,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.