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 El Salvador and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bill Near to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Eli Mardock,
Brand Nubian,
The Flesh Eaters,
Blancmange,
Bill Near,
Ohio Players,
Stiv Bators,
Procol Harum,
Toni Rubio,
Joey Negro,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lee Hazlewood,
Supertramp,
Outsiders,
Joensuu 1685,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eric Dolphy,
Jeru the Damaja,
Peter and Kerry,
The Mummies,
Drexciya,
cv313,
Donny Hathaway,
Quadrant,
Marine Girls,
Todd Rundgren,
Nas,
Agitation Free,
Quando Quango,
Animal Collective,
The United States of America,
The Kinks,
Aloha Tigers,
Boredoms,
Sun Ra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cal Tjader,
Vladislav Delay,
The Fuzztones,
Deadbeat,
kango's stein massive,
Stockholm Monsters,
Derrick Morgan,
Adolescents,
Chrome,
Joe Smooth,
Lower 48,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Radio Birdman,
Gang of Four,
The Pretty Things,
Yusef Lateef,
Radiohead,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Names,
Oblivians,
Deepchord,
The Buckinghams,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.