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 Belize and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 David Bowie 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 Warsaw to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Lyres,
Pere Ubu,
The Real Kids,
The United States of America,
MC5,
The Black Dice,
Sun City Girls,
Jeff Lynne,
Stetsasonic,
The Vogues,
Grauzone,
Roger Hodgson,
Public Enemy,
Television Personalities,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Eddi Front,
Fatback Band,
Barrington Levy,
Thee Headcoats,
The American Breed,
a-ha,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dual Sessions,
Chris Corsano,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Inner City,
The Walker Brothers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ice-T,
Black Sheep,
OOIOO,
Joey Negro,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Thompson Twins,
Aloha Tigers,
Judy Mowatt,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Morten Harket,
The Busters,
Loose Ends,
Essential Logic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Detroit Cobras,
cv313,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
E-Dancer,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Swans,
Marvin Gaye,
Severed Heads,
Tim Buckley,
Marcia Griffiths,
Amon Düül II,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.