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 Gabon and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Von Mondo to the rap 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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fela Kuti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pole,
Donald Byrd,
Kaleidoscope,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Slits,
Eden Ahbez,
Hoover,
Danielle Patucci,
Metal Thangz,
David McCallum,
Laurel Aitken,
Rufus Thomas,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Unwound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Kinks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Junior Murvin,
Brothers Johnson,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pet Shop Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Newcleus,
Infiniti,
Average White Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Masters at Work,
Suburban Knight,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scan 7,
Grauzone,
Black Flag,
Henry Cow,
Lightning Bolt,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Peter & Gordon,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Pretty Things,
Kool Moe Dee,
Monks,
Television,
Freddie Wadling,
Harpers Bizarre,
Surgeon,
Colin Newman,
Niagra,
Bobby Sherman,
Basic Channel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Fortunes,
Piero Umiliani,
Trumans Water,
Severed Heads,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Loose Ends,
Jacques Brel,
Cheater Slicks,
Urselle,
Stiv Bators,
Mo-Dettes,
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.