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 Greece 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Adolescents to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Outsiders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lindisfarne,
48th St. Collective,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Fall,
Monks,
Aural Exciters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dark Day,
The Pretty Things,
Q and Not U,
Monolake,
Maurizio,
Ronnie Foster,
Alphaville,
Hashim,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Shoche,
Tropical Tobacco,
kango's stein massive,
Crispy Ambulance,
Metal Thangz,
The Black Dice,
Siglo XX,
Stetsasonic,
Ohio Players,
L. Decosne,
Dave Gahan,
Jerry's Kids,
Rites of Spring,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Names,
Pantytec,
Ralphi Rosario,
Leonard Cohen,
the Swans,
Duran Duran,
June of 44,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Charles Mingus,
Tim Buckley,
Max Romeo,
Pantaleimon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Groovy Waters,
Michelle Simonal,
The Toasters,
Warsaw,
Section 25,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Association,
Maleditus Sound,
Reagan Youth,
Scott Walker,
Arab on Radar,
Popol Vuh,
Eve St. Jones,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.