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 Belize and from New York.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum 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 Cymande to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Busters,
Ornette Coleman,
Babytalk,
Delta 5,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cal Tjader,
Aloha Tigers,
Peter and Kerry,
Scrapy,
Cheater Slicks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kenny Larkin,
John Coltrane,
Unrelated Segments,
Vladislav Delay,
Intrusion,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jeff Lynne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Oneida,
The Blackbyrds,
The Monks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Can,
The Selecter,
Make Up,
Marcia Griffiths,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ronan,
The Sound,
Supertramp,
Desert Stars,
The Buckinghams,
Roxette,
Crime,
Siglo XX,
Flash Fearless,
Bill Near,
The Doobie Brothers,
Harmonia,
Audionom,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter & Gordon,
the Germs,
Black Flag,
the Bar-Kays,
Gastr Del Sol,
Laurel Aitken,
Iggy Pop,
Thompson Twins,
Subhumans,
FM Einheit,
Roxy Music,
Neu!,
Byron Stingily,
Mantronix,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Fugs,
The Moleskins,
Grauzone,
Silicon Teens,
Anakelly,
Nils Olav,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.