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 Argentina and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lyon.
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 organ 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 Michelle Simonal to the electroclash 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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Yellowson,
Sixth Finger,
In Retrospect,
Talk Talk,
The Moleskins,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fortunes,
Eric Copeland,
X-101,
Mary Jane Girls,
Maurizio,
Moss Icon,
the Human League,
Anthony Braxton,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gang Green,
Q65,
Radiohead,
The Invisible,
The Kinks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sight & Sound,
Black Moon,
The Sound,
The Offenders,
Surgeon,
Shuggie Otis,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tom Boy,
Archie Shepp,
Ohio Players,
The Fuzztones,
Moebius,
Skarface,
Eden Ahbez,
the Germs,
Boredoms,
Lucky Dragons,
The Barracudas,
Mantronix,
Roxette,
Saccharine Trust,
Yaz,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bauhaus,
Hashim,
The Fire Engines,
The Moody Blues,
Peter and Kerry,
Roxy Music,
Suicide,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
AZ,
Gastr Del Sol,
Section 25,
Ornette Coleman,
EPMD,
Public Enemy,
The Zeros,
Marshall Jefferson,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.