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 Mali and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 The Cramps 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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dennis Brown,
Supertramp,
Circle Jerks,
A Certain Ratio,
Toni Rubio,
Kas Product,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Slick Rick,
New York Dolls,
Malaria!,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Surgeon,
The Fugs,
Blancmange,
Pantaleimon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scientists,
Joe Smooth,
The Gladiators,
E-Dancer,
T. Rex,
Yazoo,
Iggy Pop,
Negative Approach,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Junior Murvin,
Lightning Bolt,
Organ,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dual Sessions,
Tears for Fears,
Alison Limerick,
the Germs,
Scan 7,
Guru Guru,
Bauhaus,
Hot Snakes,
Essential Logic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Johnny Osbourne,
Peter and Kerry,
Neu!,
Roxy Music,
Mandrill,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Bar-Kays,
Ice-T,
Ken Boothe,
The Mojo Men,
Ultra Naté,
Don Cherry,
Khruangbin,
The Neon Judgement,
Monolake,
Man Eating Sloth,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Colin Newman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.