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 Spain and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tim Buckley to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
The Real Kids,
Minny Pops,
Hashim,
Soulsonic Force,
Drive Like Jehu,
Crime,
The Star Department,
Hot Snakes,
Pierre Henry,
Kerri Chandler,
Liliput,
Bizarre Inc.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marshall Jefferson,
Porter Ricks,
The Gun Club,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The New Christs,
Thompson Twins,
Blossom Toes,
Marcia Griffiths,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
H. Thieme,
Massinfluence,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
John Lydon,
Amazonics,
Bobby Byrd,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roger Hodgson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pulsallama,
The Skatalites,
The Misunderstood,
The Pop Group,
The Knickerbockers,
Marc Almond,
Barbara Tucker,
Scientists,
Skriet,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Television,
The Move,
Monks,
Eurythmics,
Max Romeo,
New Order,
Nils Olav,
Q65,
Fugazi,
Agitation Free,
Cameo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Aaron Thompson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Unrelated Segments,
Suicide,
Wasted Youth,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.