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 Korea South and from Milan.
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 Bremen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
The Names,
The Sonics,
Gang of Four,
Q and Not U,
Altered Images,
Jandek,
Sun Ra,
Oblivians,
Yusef Lateef,
The Sound,
Pere Ubu,
Amon Düül,
Swans,
Mark Hollis,
Faust,
Cybotron,
Gang Gang Dance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fugs,
John Coltrane,
Wasted Youth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Associates,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Royal Trux,
Country Teasers,
Radio Birdman,
Reuben Wilson,
Metal Thangz,
Eric Copeland,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Wake,
The Monochrome Set,
Bauhaus,
Graham Central Station,
The Walker Brothers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ultra Naté,
Inner City,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eric Dolphy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Audionom,
Bang On A Can,
The Barracudas,
Grauzone,
These Immortal Souls,
The Litter,
Clear Light,
MDC,
The Blues Magoos,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Human League,
Scott Walker,
Sonny Sharrock,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.