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 Jamaica and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 sitar 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 Can 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jerry's Kids,
Massinfluence,
Clear Light,
R.M.O.,
Magma,
Ultra Naté,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Aaron Thompson,
These Immortal Souls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Arcadia,
DNA,
Procol Harum,
New Age Steppers,
Echospace,
The Motions,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tubeway Army,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
48th St. Collective,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marmalade,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marvin Gaye,
Q65,
Soft Cell,
H. Thieme,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nick Fraelich,
the Germs,
The Moody Blues,
Ultimate Spinach,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Fatback Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Quadrant,
Alice Coltrane,
Excepter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bobby Byrd,
Fluxion,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Visage,
Tropical Tobacco,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
JFA,
Connie Case,
Skarface,
The American Breed,
Blancmange,
Joey Negro,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
EPMD,
The Seeds,
The New Christs,
Public Enemy,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.