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 Montenegro and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kerrie Biddell to the grime 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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Toasters,
Dark Day,
Moebius,
Erasure,
Ronan,
Royal Trux,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Skatalites,
Aaron Thompson,
Isaac Hayes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sun Ra,
Idris Muhammad,
Q and Not U,
Girls At Our Best!,
Thee Headcoats,
Mr. Review,
The Human League,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Japan,
R.M.O.,
Young Marble Giants,
Grey Daturas,
Lalann,
Max Romeo,
Malaria!,
Excepter,
The Litter,
U.S. Maple,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Al Stewart,
New Order,
Black Moon,
Joey Negro,
L. Decosne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Camberwell Now,
Soft Machine,
Liliput,
The Star Department,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kevin Saunderson,
Symarip,
The Index,
Supertramp,
Zapp,
La Düsseldorf,
The Walker Brothers,
Sight & Sound,
Bush Tetras,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pole,
The Blackbyrds,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Saccharine Trust,
MDC,
Arcadia,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.