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 Liechtenstein and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lagos.
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 linndrum 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 Unwound to the disco 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Heaven 17,
The Pretty Things,
Jawbox,
Girls At Our Best!,
Banda Bassotti,
Schoolly D,
Niagra,
the Soft Cell,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Dirtbombs,
Con Funk Shun,
Zero Boys,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Holt,
Make Up,
Curtis Mayfield,
Slick Rick,
Inner City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Sherman,
Hasil Adkins,
Charles Mingus,
The Gladiators,
Unrelated Segments,
Deadbeat,
Faust,
Brand Nubian,
Fifty Foot Hose,
One Last Wish,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Los Fastidios,
Crash Course in Science,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Busters,
Television,
Bizarre Inc.,
Peter and Kerry,
Metal Thangz,
Moby Grape,
The Human League,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kas Product,
Saccharine Trust,
Soul II Soul,
Reagan Youth,
Skaos,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joy Division,
Chris & Cosey,
China Crisis,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Shoche,
Franke,
Lou Christie,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
David McCallum,
These Immortal Souls,
MC5,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.