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 Bhutan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 organ 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 La Düsseldorf to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Index 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
Amon Düül II,
Livin' Joy,
Boredoms,
Bill Near,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Carl Craig,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bauhaus,
Qualms,
Radiohead,
Hot Snakes,
The Names,
Funkadelic,
Newcleus,
The Black Dice,
Kerri Chandler,
Todd Rundgren,
UT,
Marmalade,
Minnie Riperton,
Dark Day,
the Human League,
Tubeway Army,
The Birthday Party,
Jeff Lynne,
Michelle Simonal,
the Swans,
The Trojans,
Surgeon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sound Behaviour,
Blossom Toes,
Royal Trux,
Faraquet,
Sixth Finger,
Eve St. Jones,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Seeds,
Inner City,
Boogie Down Productions,
T. Rex,
Josef K,
Pharoah Sanders,
Roxette,
Sugar Minott,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Neu!,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The J.B.'s,
Panda Bear,
Gichy Dan,
Ludus,
Kurtis Blow,
Thompson Twins,
Barbara Tucker,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Smog,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.