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 Argentina and from Philadelphia.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Ituana to the dance 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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Vainqueur,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Schoolly D,
Bill Near,
Sällskapet,
Sexual Harrassment,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nils Olav,
The Knickerbockers,
Lalann,
Basic Channel,
Girls At Our Best!,
Moss Icon,
The Motions,
Minutemen,
Robert Hood,
Ronan,
A Certain Ratio,
These Immortal Souls,
Ponytail,
Isaac Hayes,
Tim Buckley,
Camberwell Now,
T.S.O.L.,
Siglo XX,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kerrie Biddell,
K-Klass,
Porter Ricks,
The Velvet Underground,
H. Thieme,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bluetip,
F. McDonald,
Stereo Dub,
Peter and Kerry,
Wire,
The Beau Brummels,
the Slits,
Barbara Tucker,
Drexciya,
Nick Fraelich,
The Moleskins,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Leaves,
Mars,
Pantytec,
D'Angelo,
The Divine Comedy,
DJ Sneak,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sixth Finger,
Colin Newman,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rotary Connection,
The Gap Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobby Womack,
Zero Boys,
Mission of Burma,
Pagans, Pagans, Pagans, Pagans.
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.