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 Malaysia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro 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 Lower 48 to the grunge 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 The Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Cheater Slicks,
The Moleskins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Goldenarms,
Bill Wells,
Can,
Heaven 17,
Marvin Gaye,
Cal Tjader,
Black Flag,
The Offenders,
John Holt,
The Selecter,
The Grass Roots,
ABC,
Hoover,
The Remains,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ornette Coleman,
Neil Young,
Brand Nubian,
The Count Five,
Gang Starr,
Mandrill,
Panda Bear,
Model 500,
John Cale,
Fluxion,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jerry's Kids,
Althea and Donna,
Terry Callier,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jeff Lynne,
Qualms,
The Fuzztones,
Ultravox,
Cymande,
Rod Modell,
The Techniques,
China Crisis,
Talk Talk,
Faraquet,
Moss Icon,
Matthew Halsall,
ABBA,
The Motions,
Joensuu 1685,
Joe Finger,
the Soft Cell,
Prince Buster,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soft Cell,
Johnny Clarke,
Sällskapet,
Vainqueur,
Roger Hodgson,
Camberwell Now,
The Trojans,
Donny Hathaway,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.