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 Eritrea and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 CMW to the disco 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 Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Neil Young,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kaleidoscope,
Porter Ricks,
The Mojo Men,
Minor Threat,
Boogie Down Productions,
EPMD,
Man Eating Sloth,
Whodini,
Flipper,
Camouflage,
Radio Birdman,
Bobby Sherman,
Masters at Work,
Mark Hollis,
X-Ray Spex,
The Stooges,
Josef K,
Interpol,
Aloha Tigers,
Toni Rubio,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
ABBA,
Erasure,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tim Buckley,
The Young Rascals,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Swans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Idris Muhammad,
Loose Ends,
Marvin Gaye,
Panda Bear,
Carl Craig,
Big Daddy Kane,
Suburban Knight,
World's Most,
Skaos,
The Associates,
Gastr Del Sol,
Symarip,
Bobby Womack,
AZ,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Brothers Johnson,
June Days,
Lungfish,
Make Up,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Flash Fearless,
Stiv Bators,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ice-T,
Monks,
Isaac Hayes,
Audionom,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Doors,
Rekid,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.