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 Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 chamberlin 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 Jeff Lynne to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tubeway Army,
Derrick Morgan,
Kaleidoscope,
EPMD,
Deepchord,
Rapeman,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Susan Cadogan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pierre Henry,
E-Dancer,
Ten City,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dark Day,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Offenders,
Joe Smooth,
Toni Rubio,
Grey Daturas,
Sarah Menescal,
Ronnie Foster,
Agent Orange,
Blossom Toes,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Grass Roots,
Lou Christie,
Animal Collective,
Bootsy Collins,
Anthony Braxton,
Donald Byrd,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Thompson Twins,
Byron Stingily,
Gang Starr,
Pussy Galore,
Barrington Levy,
Severed Heads,
Bad Manners,
Dual Sessions,
New Order,
Subhumans,
Pulsallama,
The Selecter,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eddi Front,
ABBA,
Marvin Gaye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Stiv Bators,
Mantronix,
Depeche Mode,
Nas,
Warren Ellis,
Black Pus,
Young Marble Giants,
Little Man,
Rotary Connection,
Country Teasers,
The Gladiators,
The Victims,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.