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 Senegal and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Colin Newman to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Swell Maps,
Sonic Youth,
Curtis Mayfield,
Funkadelic,
U.S. Maple,
Crime,
Deadbeat,
Animal Collective,
The Index,
The Techniques,
the Normal,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Donny Hathaway,
Gang Green,
Ronnie Foster,
Bad Manners,
The Durutti Column,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Banda Bassotti,
Roger Hodgson,
Byron Stingily,
Livin' Joy,
The Offenders,
Spoonie Gee,
Boredoms,
Youth Brigade,
The Mummies,
Shoche,
Infiniti,
E-Dancer,
The Star Department,
The Tremeloes,
Wally Richardson,
Echospace,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dave Gahan,
Vladislav Delay,
Harmonia,
Andrew Hill,
Amon Düül II,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jeff Lynne,
Morten Harket,
Brand Nubian,
Sandy B,
Technova,
The Doors,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Fear,
Brass Construction,
Joe Smooth,
The Modern Lovers,
Lucky Dragons,
Gregory Isaacs,
Warsaw,
Robert Görl,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Schoolly D,
DJ Style,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.