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 Cyprus and from Calgary.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fugazi to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
FM Einheit,
Terry Callier,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Audionom,
Marc Almond,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Warren Ellis,
Pagans,
Lebanon Hanover,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scientists,
Silicon Teens,
John Lydon,
Fela Kuti,
EPMD,
The Zeros,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Johnny Osbourne,
R.M.O.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Anthony Braxton,
Ken Boothe,
Duran Duran,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lucky Dragons,
Reagan Youth,
Jesper Dahlback,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Invisible,
Nico,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Royal Trux,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Yusef Lateef,
Byron Stingily,
Ultimate Spinach,
Whodini,
Echospace,
Reuben Wilson,
Sun Ra,
Infiniti,
Swans,
Dark Day,
Skaos,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Loose Ends,
Easy Going,
Quantec,
the Fania All-Stars,
June of 44,
June Days,
The New Christs,
The Fuzztones,
The Black Dice,
Cybotron,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jeff Lynne,
Animal Collective,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.