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 Yemen and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro 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 The Star Department 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 Amazonics. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Junior Murvin,
The Move,
the Soft Cell,
Erykah Badu,
Max Romeo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dark Day,
Visage,
Flamin' Groovies,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Saints,
Saccharine Trust,
Little Man,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Swell Maps,
Scientists,
Can,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Surgeon,
David McCallum,
Fugazi,
Lindisfarne,
CMW,
Niagra,
Sandy B,
The Blackbyrds,
Traffic Nightmare,
Don Cherry,
Reuben Wilson,
Guru Guru,
The Music Machine,
Piero Umiliani,
10cc,
Mars,
Amon Düül II,
China Crisis,
Crash Course in Science,
Moby Grape,
Rotary Connection,
New Age Steppers,
John Cale,
The Pop Group,
The Buckinghams,
Half Japanese,
Cecil Taylor,
Procol Harum,
Wire,
The Happenings,
Eric B and Rakim,
Unrelated Segments,
Spoonie Gee,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Davy DMX,
Radiopuhelimet,
cv313,
Robert Görl,
Joe Smooth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cybotron,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fluxion,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.