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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Cymande to the crunk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Excepter,
Rites of Spring,
Groovy Waters,
The Saints,
Hashim,
The Misunderstood,
Sound Behaviour,
Ponytail,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cymande,
Roxette,
Eli Mardock,
Leonard Cohen,
The Smoke,
Easy Going,
Matthew Halsall,
Pulsallama,
Robert Görl,
AZ,
Average White Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cure,
X-Ray Spex,
Alphaville,
Youth Brigade,
Yellowson,
the Soft Cell,
Tommy Roe,
Max Romeo,
Fat Boys,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Young Rascals,
Animal Collective,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bootsy Collins,
Television,
Roxy Music,
Banda Bassotti,
Ituana,
Half Japanese,
Minor Threat,
The Doobie Brothers,
Janne Schatter,
The Associates,
X-102,
Los Fastidios,
Moby Grape,
Robert Wyatt,
Barry Ungar,
The Sonics,
Zero Boys,
Sight & Sound,
Tres Demented,
The United States of America,
DJ Sneak,
Tim Buckley,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.