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 Cuba and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Faraquet,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Moebius,
Archie Shepp,
Crash Course in Science,
Niagra,
Suburban Knight,
Rod Modell,
Joyce Sims,
Johnny Clarke,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
One Last Wish,
Robert Görl,
Brass Construction,
U.S. Maple,
Oneida,
Soulsonic Force,
Kaleidoscope,
Underground Resistance,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Symarip,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pylon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harmonia,
Trumans Water,
Ken Boothe,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marc Almond,
Lou Christie,
The Busters,
Malaria!,
LL Cool J,
Pole,
Ohio Players,
Yellowson,
The Star Department,
Bootsy Collins,
AZ,
Bang On A Can,
Deadbeat,
Fugazi,
Pierre Henry,
Reagan Youth,
Urselle,
Swans,
Animal Collective,
Deakin,
Charles Mingus,
K-Klass,
Soft Machine,
Dual Sessions,
The Misunderstood,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Icehouse,
Mr. Review,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.