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 Austria and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Michael McDonald 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 Chris & Cosey to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Cluster,
Nick Fraelich,
DNA,
the Association,
the Swans,
Warren Ellis,
Rites of Spring,
Lucky Dragons,
Robert Hood,
Tomorrow,
Das Ding,
Reuben Wilson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
This Heat,
Derrick May,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Misunderstood,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Fortunes,
Colin Newman,
Khruangbin,
Masters at Work,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Soft Cell,
Sight & Sound,
Smog,
Funky Four + One,
Talk Talk,
B.T. Express,
ABC,
Skaos,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Fugs,
The Monochrome Set,
The Walker Brothers,
Aural Exciters,
T.S.O.L.,
Dennis Brown,
Thee Headcoats,
These Immortal Souls,
Amon Düül,
Judy Mowatt,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Victims,
Jeru the Damaja,
Warsaw,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grey Daturas,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Brick,
Sparks,
Grauzone,
Gang Starr,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gichy Dan,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Knickerbockers,
The Zeros,
Chrome,
Kurtis Blow,
Rufus Thomas,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.