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 Netherlands and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Outsiders to the crunk 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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Index,
Iggy Pop,
The Fortunes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Roy Ayers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Human League,
Chrome,
Half Japanese,
Visage,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Saccharine Trust,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Moleskins,
Subhumans,
Eli Mardock,
Mr. Review,
John Coltrane,
The Seeds,
Fat Boys,
DNA,
Fugazi,
The Music Machine,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pulsallama,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Groovy Waters,
Lower 48,
The Modern Lovers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mission of Burma,
Matthew Halsall,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Black Dice,
Funky Four + One,
the Bar-Kays,
Barrington Levy,
Slave,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Young Rascals,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Wolf Eyes,
The Fugs,
H. Thieme,
Alice Coltrane,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Franke,
This Heat,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Unrelated Segments,
Lightning Bolt,
Terrestrial Tones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Carl Craig,
Joey Negro,
New Order,
the Slits,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.