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 Jordan and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Al Stewart to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and an arpeggiator 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 marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Shuggie Otis,
Niagra,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Colin Newman,
Don Cherry,
The Golliwogs,
Public Enemy,
Mars,
Ronan,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bad Manners,
Man Parrish,
ABBA,
Spoonie Gee,
Joe Smooth,
Procol Harum,
The Index,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
10cc,
Kool Moe Dee,
Matthew Halsall,
Lindisfarne,
Avey Tare,
Slick Rick,
Terry Callier,
The Residents,
Smog,
Alton Ellis,
KRS-One,
The Pretty Things,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gang Green,
The Names,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Second Layer,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bill Near,
B.T. Express,
The Young Rascals,
Albert Ayler,
The Smiths,
Lungfish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hot Snakes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
DNA,
Davy DMX,
Laurel Aitken,
The Electric Prunes,
The Buckinghams,
Blake Baxter,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bluetip,
Unrelated Segments,
The Remains,
The Mojo Men,
Roxy Music,
Eve St. Jones,
Sixth Finger,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.