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 Panama and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin 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 Wire to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dirtbombs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Moleskins,
The Invisible,
FM Einheit,
Visage,
Camouflage,
Dawn Penn,
Heaven 17,
Lou Christie,
Lalann,
The Selecter,
Blancmange,
Henry Cow,
X-102,
The Litter,
Cluster,
Stereo Dub,
Jeff Lynne,
Boredoms,
Second Layer,
Jawbox,
Scion,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
D'Angelo,
Scientists,
Albert Ayler,
Ronan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joyce Sims,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
OOIOO,
Nation of Ulysses,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Sheep,
Guru Guru,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Organ,
the Sonics,
Amon Düül,
Wolf Eyes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Iggy Pop,
Max Romeo,
Essential Logic,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kas Product,
China Crisis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Arcadia,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric B and Rakim,
Neu!,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Swans,
the Slits,
the Association,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eddi Front,
Harmonia,
Jimmy McGriff,
Glambeats Corp.,
Groovy Waters,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.