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 Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 AZ to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Babytalk,
Rekid,
David McCallum,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Main Source,
The Knickerbockers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moby Grape,
Pantytec,
Amon Düül,
Eli Mardock,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hot Snakes,
The Tremeloes,
Cluster,
the Slits,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Connie Case,
kango's stein massive,
Patti Smith,
Surgeon,
Wolf Eyes,
Jerry's Kids,
Crooked Eye,
Donny Hathaway,
Altered Images,
Minny Pops,
Boz Scaggs,
The Red Krayola,
The New Christs,
Subhumans,
Scrapy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Human League,
Barry Ungar,
Thompson Twins,
Pantaleimon,
Scion,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marvin Gaye,
These Immortal Souls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Trojans,
Goldenarms,
Model 500,
Kaleidoscope,
Don Cherry,
Spoonie Gee,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Golliwogs,
Robert Wyatt,
Henry Cow,
Bill Near,
Agitation Free,
Infiniti,
Supertramp,
Juan Atkins,
Magma,
Television,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.