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 New Zealand and from Columbus.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jeff Lynne to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 the Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC 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?
Delon & Dalcan,
Royal Trux,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ornette Coleman,
Y Pants,
Marine Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Funky Four + One,
Quando Quango,
The Doors,
Average White Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
PIL,
Brass Construction,
the Bar-Kays,
China Crisis,
The Durutti Column,
Heaven 17,
Shoche,
David Axelrod,
Motorama,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Monochrome Set,
Alton Ellis,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Young Rascals,
Slave,
Alice Coltrane,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Buckinghams,
Television,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rites of Spring,
Harmonia,
Amon Düül II,
Intrusion,
Aloha Tigers,
The Neon Judgement,
Malaria!,
Surgeon,
La Düsseldorf,
Kayak,
Maleditus Sound,
Radiohead,
Eve St. Jones,
The Gladiators,
Popol Vuh,
Funkadelic,
Negative Approach,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wings,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Chrome,
Todd Terry,
Essential Logic,
Robert Görl,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fortunes,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.