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 Kyrgyzstan and from Houston.
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 Bremen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 organ 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 Agitation Free to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mo-Dettes,
Television,
Vainqueur,
CMW,
Groovy Waters,
The Birthday Party,
A Flock of Seagulls,
June of 44,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Flipper,
Ten City,
Liliput,
Jawbox,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Crash Course in Science,
Cluster,
Gichy Dan,
Dead Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Y Pants,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
cv313,
Ossler,
Byron Stingily,
Eden Ahbez,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
DJ Style,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Neon Judgement,
Piero Umiliani,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Human League,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Associates,
Blancmange,
The Motions,
The Black Dice,
Nas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ponytail,
The Dead C,
Outsiders,
Kurtis Blow,
K-Klass,
Bobbi Humphrey,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kerri Chandler,
The Residents,
Sun City Girls,
Deadbeat,
The Gun Club,
Moby Grape,
Suburban Knight,
Amazonics,
The Blackbyrds,
John Lydon,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.