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 Venezuela and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Danielle Patucci to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pole record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Al Stewart,
Gregory Isaacs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Shuggie Otis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fatback Band,
Roxy Music,
Bluetip,
Brick,
Gang Gang Dance,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Bananas,
K-Klass,
Sam Rivers,
The Fortunes,
Minny Pops,
Warren Ellis,
Alison Limerick,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Tremeloes,
Tim Buckley,
The Standells,
Vladislav Delay,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sparks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pylon,
Ronan,
Swans,
Khruangbin,
Simply Red,
The Cure,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Television Personalities,
Oblivians,
Scott Walker,
Intrusion,
Junior Murvin,
Mo-Dettes,
The Offenders,
DJ Sneak,
Gastr Del Sol,
New Order,
Lou Christie,
Masters at Work,
Television,
the Human League,
Magma,
Yaz,
Malaria!,
Cymande,
The Moody Blues,
Smog,
Gabor Szabo,
The Moleskins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kaleidoscope,
Faust,
The Doobie Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cramps,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.