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 Belize and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Five Americans to the funk 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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Arthur Verocai,
Ten City,
Steve Hackett,
Amon Düül,
The Durutti Column,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
David Bowie,
CMW,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Moody Blues,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Zero Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
Panda Bear,
the Sonics,
Boz Scaggs,
Byron Stingily,
the Fania All-Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Al Stewart,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sight & Sound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Magma,
Severed Heads,
Essential Logic,
Soulsonic Force,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joey Negro,
Black Pus,
Deepchord,
the Association,
Alphaville,
Lightning Bolt,
Duran Duran,
Hashim,
Anthony Braxton,
Harry Pussy,
Josef K,
Eric Dolphy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Altered Images,
Infiniti,
Stereo Dub,
Rosa Yemen,
Pylon,
Ituana,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ponytail,
Lucky Dragons,
Ossler,
EPMD,
Lungfish,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Gories,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Minor Threat,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.