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 Switzerland and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Isaac Hayes to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Brand Nubian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Curtis Mayfield,
Stereo Dub,
Isaac Hayes,
The Trojans,
the Germs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rekid,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Radiohead,
Average White Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bootsy Collins,
Faraquet,
Jacob Miller,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Funkadelic,
Fugazi,
Spoonie Gee,
E-Dancer,
Marc Almond,
Carl Craig,
the Normal,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
ABC,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sandy B,
Sex Pistols,
Byron Stingily,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed,
The Blues Magoos,
Stockholm Monsters,
Tommy Roe,
The Evens,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jeff Lynne,
June of 44,
The Sound,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kas Product,
Colin Newman,
Bobby Byrd,
OOIOO,
The Birthday Party,
Aswad,
In Retrospect,
Eve St. Jones,
Jeru the Damaja,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Roxette,
Yaz,
Radio Birdman,
Ultimate Spinach,
Stetsasonic,
The Monochrome Set,
Amazonics,
Soul II Soul,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Saccharine Trust,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.