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 Guinea and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Lizzy Mercier Descloux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Skriet,
Television,
Marc Almond,
Ultra Naté,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Moebius,
Royal Trux,
Yazoo,
Schoolly D,
Talk Talk,
Parry Music,
Boredoms,
Colin Newman,
Johnny Clarke,
Lucky Dragons,
Subhumans,
Morten Harket,
Agent Orange,
Spandau Ballet,
Organ,
Ituana,
The Young Rascals,
The Angels of Light,
Rites of Spring,
Wasted Youth,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bobby Womack,
Arcadia,
Moss Icon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Roxette,
Barclay James Harvest,
Franke,
Robert Wyatt,
Livin' Joy,
Jawbox,
Delta 5,
Rotary Connection,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
kango's stein massive,
Rod Modell,
Sound Behaviour,
Cheater Slicks,
Nils Olav,
The Busters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Interpol,
The Index,
Blossom Toes,
Joyce Sims,
Black Bananas,
Lalann,
Deakin,
Swans,
The Leaves,
Kenny Larkin,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Archie Shepp,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.