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 France and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gil Scott Heron to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers 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 techno 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Amon Düül,
Jacob Miller,
Neu!,
The Trojans,
Gregory Isaacs,
Depeche Mode,
Technova,
Half Japanese,
Marshall Jefferson,
Suicide,
Eddi Front,
Lightning Bolt,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Slave,
The Dave Clark Five,
Crispian St. Peters,
Monolake,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Angry Samoans,
Donny Hathaway,
DJ Style,
DNA,
Jacques Brel,
Moebius,
Leonard Cohen,
Skriet,
Davy DMX,
In Retrospect,
Shuggie Otis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Aswad,
The Modern Lovers,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Moleskins,
Parry Music,
Ornette Coleman,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dual Sessions,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joey Negro,
10cc,
Banda Bassotti,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mars,
The Fire Engines,
Minny Pops,
Animal Collective,
Section 25,
The Real Kids,
Joe Finger,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cheater Slicks,
A Certain Ratio,
Brothers Johnson,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Gap Band,
Tears for Fears,
Underground Resistance,
David McCallum,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.