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 Jamaica and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Little Man to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Dead Boys,
The Fuzztones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Animal Collective,
The Litter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joe Smooth,
Johnny Osbourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Buzzcocks,
Index,
Isaac Hayes,
Blancmange,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
DNA,
Hashim,
Eden Ahbez,
X-102,
Easy Going,
kango's stein massive,
Albert Ayler,
Flamin' Groovies,
FM Einheit,
Darondo,
Cheater Slicks,
MC5,
Skaos,
Icehouse,
Section 25,
Erasure,
Yazoo,
Roy Ayers,
Rufus Thomas,
Silicon Teens,
The Divine Comedy,
Connie Case,
Tubeway Army,
DJ Sneak,
Brass Construction,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Yaz,
Josef K,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fugazi,
MDC,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eric Copeland,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Chris & Cosey,
Camberwell Now,
The Kinks,
John Lydon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Wire,
Dave Gahan,
Anakelly,
The Standells,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.