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 Grenada and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lalo Schifrin to the techno 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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
New York Dolls,
Gang Green,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Graham Central Station,
Joyce Sims,
The Kinks,
Japan,
Nation of Ulysses,
Todd Terry,
The Dead C,
Godley & Creme,
Model 500,
Wings,
Cheater Slicks,
John Foxx,
David Axelrod,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Drive Like Jehu,
cv313,
Steve Hackett,
Traffic Nightmare,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed,
Stetsasonic,
Infiniti,
Pole,
Slave,
Blancmange,
UT,
Reuben Wilson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Standells,
Ronnie Foster,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lindisfarne,
Grauzone,
The Invisible,
Jawbox,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Beau Brummels,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Audionom,
Royal Trux,
Erasure,
Marine Girls,
Gichy Dan,
Matthew Bourne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Moby Grape,
Eric Copeland,
Crispy Ambulance,
Moebius,
Das Ding,
H. Thieme,
Lyres,
Quando Quango,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Hashim,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.