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 Sweden 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 linndrum 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 Lebanon Hanover to the dance 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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Anthony Braxton,
The Leaves,
The Move,
Aswad,
Glenn Branca,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
L. Decosne,
John Holt,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Chrome,
The Trojans,
The Birthday Party,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Vainqueur,
Sarah Menescal,
These Immortal Souls,
Little Man,
Hot Snakes,
Delta 5,
Jeru the Damaja,
H. Thieme,
Brick,
Flash Fearless,
The Invisible,
Terry Callier,
Pere Ubu,
Grey Daturas,
Whodini,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Iggy Pop,
Eurythmics,
The Neon Judgement,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
ABC,
Matthew Halsall,
Excepter,
Sixth Finger,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Easy Going,
Cymande,
The Monochrome Set,
The Grass Roots,
10cc,
Moss Icon,
Yazoo,
Harmonia,
Ice-T,
Silicon Teens,
Accadde A,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Schoolly D,
Q and Not U,
Parry Music,
Nils Olav,
The Moody Blues,
Kerri Chandler,
Harpers Bizarre,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The American Breed,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.