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 Rwanda and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Camouflage to the rock 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Buckinghams,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobby Byrd,
China Crisis,
Vladislav Delay,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Agent Orange,
Dave Gahan,
Unrelated Segments,
Sun City Girls,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Patti Smith,
Half Japanese,
The Knickerbockers,
Barbara Tucker,
The Moleskins,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Erykah Badu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Yazoo,
Television Personalities,
Underground Resistance,
Judy Mowatt,
Moss Icon,
The Motions,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Wire,
Blake Baxter,
Icehouse,
The Selecter,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Sonics,
Prince Buster,
Moebius,
Dead Boys,
Alice Coltrane,
Pagans,
The Stooges,
Franke,
Alton Ellis,
Moby Grape,
Outsiders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jandek,
Idris Muhammad,
Junior Murvin,
The Move,
Nik Kershaw,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Royal Trux,
Scott Walker,
a-ha,
MC5,
Warren Ellis,
The Fuzztones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lee Hazlewood,
Loose Ends,
Lalo Schifrin,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.