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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oppenheimer Analysis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Kerri Chandler,
The Durutti Column,
Jeff Mills,
The Happenings,
The Selecter,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Vladislav Delay,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sex Pistols,
The Toasters,
Michelle Simonal,
The American Breed,
Drive Like Jehu,
Joe Smooth,
Gichy Dan,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Buckinghams,
Carl Craig,
Curtis Mayfield,
Swell Maps,
Moss Icon,
The J.B.'s,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ponytail,
Radio Birdman,
Saccharine Trust,
The Kinks,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pole,
Sister Nancy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pantytec,
Matthew Bourne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Deadbeat,
Erasure,
The Divine Comedy,
Interpol,
Bootsy Collins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Young Marble Giants,
the Slits,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scott Walker,
Lakeside,
Joy Division,
Nils Olav,
Delta 5,
Intrusion,
Cheater Slicks,
Henry Cow,
Rhythm & Sound,
Blake Baxter,
Tres Demented,
Y Pants,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Count Five,
Von Mondo,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
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.