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 New Zealand and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scientists,
Kas Product,
Magma,
Judy Mowatt,
a-ha,
Roxy Music,
Essential Logic,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stiv Bators,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter and Kerry,
Grauzone,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Leaves,
Can,
Crime,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Henry Cow,
Ornette Coleman,
The Blackbyrds,
Agitation Free,
Camberwell Now,
Fat Boys,
The Five Americans,
Neil Young,
D'Angelo,
Amon Düül,
The Dirtbombs,
Mark Hollis,
Warsaw,
Sarah Menescal,
Fad Gadget,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fluxion,
Main Source,
Chris Corsano,
R.M.O.,
Neu!,
Mandrill,
Lou Christie,
Scion,
Suicide,
Little Man,
Erasure,
Underground Resistance,
John Coltrane,
The Zeros,
Sparks,
Funkadelic,
Warren Ellis,
Amazonics,
Panda Bear,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eurythmics,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Red Krayola,
Shuggie Otis,
Mars,
Iggy Pop,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.