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 Estonia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 synthesizer 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 Dual Sessions to the dance 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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bootsy Collins,
Fluxion,
Kurtis Blow,
The Doobie Brothers,
Flash Fearless,
Radio Birdman,
Bronski Beat,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Slackers,
Suburban Knight,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soft Cell,
The Young Rascals,
Bizarre Inc.,
Agitation Free,
The Moody Blues,
The Human League,
Fear,
Henry Cow,
Dave Gahan,
Cal Tjader,
Brass Construction,
Hoover,
Fat Boys,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jacob Miller,
Easy Going,
the Bar-Kays,
Robert Wyatt,
Neil Young,
Qualms,
Lou Christie,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Peter & Gordon,
Massinfluence,
Scrapy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Saints,
The Pop Group,
June of 44,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Idris Muhammad,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lakeside,
The Blackbyrds,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pet Shop Boys,
KRS-One,
Banda Bassotti,
Infiniti,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bobby Womack,
Stetsasonic,
Make Up,
Arthur Verocai,
Eurythmics,
Tim Buckley,
Zero Boys,
David Axelrod,
Lucky Dragons,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.