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 Kiribati and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Qualms to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Connie Case,
Jacob Miller,
The Vogues,
L. Decosne,
Darondo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mark Hollis,
Sarah Menescal,
The Toasters,
Patti Smith,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Von Mondo,
Gang Starr,
Funkadelic,
Roy Ayers,
Roger Hodgson,
Hot Snakes,
D'Angelo,
Marmalade,
Soft Cell,
Negative Approach,
Delon & Dalcan,
K-Klass,
B.T. Express,
The Grass Roots,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Alton Ellis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joy Division,
Neu!,
Sister Nancy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Arcadia,
Soul II Soul,
The Smoke,
John Lydon,
Crash Course in Science,
Hashim,
John Holt,
Avey Tare,
The Saints,
Flamin' Groovies,
Laurel Aitken,
Amon Düül,
Robert Görl,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cameo,
Clear Light,
Dorothy Ashby,
Infiniti,
Easy Going,
Janne Schatter,
Tim Buckley,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Real Kids,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.