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 Iraq and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 guitar 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 Rapeman to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Scion,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stiv Bators,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
New Age Steppers,
Susan Cadogan,
John Holt,
Lindisfarne,
Essential Logic,
Flamin' Groovies,
Be Bop Deluxe,
UT,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Trumans Water,
Gabor Szabo,
Mantronix,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cheater Slicks,
Tears for Fears,
Connie Case,
Mission of Burma,
The Motions,
The Cramps,
kango's stein massive,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jawbox,
Delon & Dalcan,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Knickerbockers,
Marvin Gaye,
Tommy Roe,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dead Boys,
Bluetip,
China Crisis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fela Kuti,
Godley & Creme,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Joe Smooth,
Frankie Knuckles,
Underground Resistance,
Brothers Johnson,
One Last Wish,
Ronnie Foster,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Circle Jerks,
Nico,
Avey Tare,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Aswad,
Isaac Hayes,
Hardrive,
The Invisible,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Metal Thangz,
Oneida,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.