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 Ethiopia and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tehran.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Michelle Simonal to the crunk 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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Danielle Patucci,
Peter & Gordon,
The Real Kids,
Neu!,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Negative Approach,
Black Bananas,
David Bowie,
Chris & Cosey,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Names,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sex Pistols,
One Last Wish,
Gabor Szabo,
Arcadia,
Dead Boys,
Bauhaus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Black Dice,
Cameo,
Sun City Girls,
Slave,
Wally Richardson,
Idris Muhammad,
Joey Negro,
Pere Ubu,
Minor Threat,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Busters,
Soul II Soul,
Al Stewart,
the Soft Cell,
Crash Course in Science,
Cecil Taylor,
F. McDonald,
Kerri Chandler,
Nils Olav,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lalann,
Black Flag,
Flash Fearless,
Bill Near,
Hoover,
Piero Umiliani,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Barry Ungar,
Moby Grape,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Terry Callier,
Yellowson,
John Holt,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Outsiders,
Crooked Eye,
Panda Bear,
D'Angelo,
Thee Headcoats,
Smog,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.