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 Cyprus and from Lagos.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Ponytail to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Todd Terry,
Dave Gahan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marc Almond,
Kenny Larkin,
Crime,
Morten Harket,
Kayak,
Procol Harum,
Roxette,
The Star Department,
the Association,
Radio Birdman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Blake Baxter,
Chris Corsano,
Traffic Nightmare,
KRS-One,
Cymande,
Jacob Miller,
The Divine Comedy,
X-101,
The Buckinghams,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sandy B,
Gang of Four,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Holt,
The Five Americans,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cameo,
Ronnie Foster,
Pierre Henry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flipper,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Von Mondo,
Alice Coltrane,
Make Up,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Barrington Levy,
Monolake,
Byron Stingily,
The Wake,
The Trojans,
Rites of Spring,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Yusef Lateef,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Shoche,
Brick,
Metal Thangz,
Brand Nubian,
8 Eyed Spy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Chris & Cosey,
The Misunderstood,
T.S.O.L.,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.