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 Israel and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Paris.
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 mellotron 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 Roxette to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Nirvana,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Birthday Party,
Banda Bassotti,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Angels of Light,
Gabor Szabo,
H. Thieme,
Soft Cell,
Yazoo,
Quantec,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Heaven 17,
Skaos,
Y Pants,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Spandau Ballet,
Pierre Henry,
Black Pus,
Negative Approach,
Nils Olav,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Toasters,
Howard Jones,
Lucky Dragons,
Procol Harum,
Q65,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bootsy Collins,
Gang Green,
John Cale,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Average White Band,
Marine Girls,
Matthew Halsall,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jacques Brel,
The Fortunes,
Sarah Menescal,
Nas,
Soul II Soul,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Electric Prunes,
Ten City,
Skarface,
Qualms,
LL Cool J,
New Age Steppers,
The Gun Club,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Crime,
Rhythm & Sound,
Livin' Joy,
The Sonics,
Trumans Water,
The Beau Brummels,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Dead C,
The Sound,
Liliput,
The Associates,
Neu!,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.