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 Korea North and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Quadrant to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff 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?
Matthew Bourne,
Grandmaster Flash,
Peter & Gordon,
Y Pants,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kerri Chandler,
Amon Düül II,
Flipper,
The Searchers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Invisible,
Blossom Toes,
The Gap Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Neu!,
Henry Cow,
New York Dolls,
The Motions,
Warren Ellis,
The Durutti Column,
Franke,
Duran Duran,
Sparks,
Talk Talk,
Darondo,
Black Pus,
Moebius,
Jacques Brel,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Hashim,
Pulsallama,
China Crisis,
Dennis Brown,
Gregory Isaacs,
Monolake,
Wolf Eyes,
Lower 48,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Dead Boys,
The Mummies,
Tres Demented,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crime,
The Angels of Light,
Cheater Slicks,
Spandau Ballet,
Cecil Taylor,
Scion,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Black Sheep,
Au Pairs,
Judy Mowatt,
Tomorrow,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sonic Youth,
Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Moss Icon,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.