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 Vietnam and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 10cc to the dance 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harry Pussy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Warsaw,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Near,
Stiv Bators,
Echospace,
Funky Four + One,
Janne Schatter,
Danielle Patucci,
Minor Threat,
The Slackers,
The Evens,
Radio Birdman,
The Techniques,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Slits,
Morten Harket,
This Heat,
Suicide,
Stetsasonic,
EPMD,
FM Einheit,
Donald Byrd,
Monolake,
8 Eyed Spy,
Prince Buster,
ABC,
Neu!,
Max Romeo,
Saccharine Trust,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bauhaus,
Q and Not U,
Sarah Menescal,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Barracudas,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cecil Taylor,
Arab on Radar,
The Skatalites,
Moby Grape,
10cc,
Das Ding,
Soft Machine,
The Knickerbockers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Ohio Players,
The Residents,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Cure,
Livin' Joy,
Au Pairs,
The Index,
Pierre Henry,
Franke,
MDC,
Intrusion,
Fad Gadget,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.