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 Nauru and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 synthesizer 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 Morten Harket to the jazz 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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bizarre Inc.,
A Certain Ratio,
Hot Snakes,
Rosa Yemen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mandrill,
Absolute Body Control,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Buckinghams,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lungfish,
Audionom,
Sun Ra,
Amon Düül,
MC5,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sonic Youth,
Reuben Wilson,
Faust,
Wasted Youth,
The Grass Roots,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cheater Slicks,
The Dead C,
Terry Callier,
Nik Kershaw,
Brick,
Laurel Aitken,
R.M.O.,
the Swans,
KRS-One,
Ituana,
Alison Limerick,
Black Bananas,
Nick Fraelich,
Model 500,
The Count Five,
Reagan Youth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Siglo XX,
Outsiders,
The Neon Judgement,
The Alarm Clocks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Khruangbin,
Sex Pistols,
Aural Exciters,
Jawbox,
Con Funk Shun,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minnie Riperton,
Banda Bassotti,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Mojo Men,
K-Klass,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.