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 Rwanda and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 mellotron 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 Arab on Radar to the disco 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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
The Black Dice,
Main Source,
Althea and Donna,
Intrusion,
Bobby Womack,
Sandy B,
Japan,
Technova,
The Cure,
Subhumans,
Maurizio,
Khruangbin,
Reagan Youth,
La Düsseldorf,
Glenn Branca,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pere Ubu,
Sound Behaviour,
The American Breed,
Y Pants,
Ossler,
Aloha Tigers,
Lower 48,
Procol Harum,
Bobby Byrd,
New Age Steppers,
Agitation Free,
Sun City Girls,
Connie Case,
Eden Ahbez,
Pierre Henry,
Derrick Morgan,
Liliput,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Peter and Kerry,
Bronski Beat,
Stetsasonic,
The Red Krayola,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Au Pairs,
R.M.O.,
Black Bananas,
Fat Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
Faust,
Robert Görl,
Boz Scaggs,
Funky Four + One,
Derrick May,
The Trojans,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Infiniti,
Blancmange,
Peter & Gordon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Zero Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
The Velvet Underground,
Lou Christie,
Minor Threat,
Roxy Music,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.