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 Tonga and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Aloha Tigers 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Essential Logic,
Schoolly D,
Tom Boy,
Dennis Brown,
Peter and Kerry,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Mojo Men,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ossler,
Bobby Womack,
X-101,
Crispy Ambulance,
Wings,
Organ,
Erykah Badu,
Gichy Dan,
Bobby Byrd,
Scan 7,
Icehouse,
MC5,
Urselle,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tears for Fears,
The Star Department,
Dave Gahan,
Radiohead,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Neu!,
Bizarre Inc.,
Minor Threat,
Faust,
Sixth Finger,
Silicon Teens,
Neil Young,
Yusef Lateef,
cv313,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mantronix,
K-Klass,
Duran Duran,
Spoonie Gee,
Groovy Waters,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bronski Beat,
Cheater Slicks,
Johnny Osbourne,
June Days,
Sonic Youth,
X-102,
Vladislav Delay,
Interpol,
Infiniti,
Sonny Sharrock,
Erasure,
Robert Hood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wasted Youth,
Inner City,
Spandau Ballet,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.