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 Morocco and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sarah Menescal to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lungfish,
Nils Olav,
The Motions,
Blake Baxter,
Masters at Work,
Audionom,
Oblivians,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Marc Almond,
The Names,
Pulsallama,
Bauhaus,
Au Pairs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
James White and The Blacks,
Roxette,
Guru Guru,
China Crisis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Accadde A,
Second Layer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Green,
Skaos,
Donald Byrd,
Amazonics,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Cowsills,
10cc,
Minny Pops,
Davy DMX,
AZ,
Dawn Penn,
Bobby Hutcherson,
DJ Style,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Skatalites,
Boredoms,
Lucky Dragons,
EPMD,
Rites of Spring,
The Seeds,
Wire,
Glambeats Corp.,
Qualms,
Judy Mowatt,
MC5,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Human League,
Black Flag,
kango's stein massive,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Monks,
Electric Prunes,
The Invisible,
Fugazi,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Toni Rubio,
Schoolly D,
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.