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 New Zealand and from Edmonton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Scion to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Lower 48,
Tears for Fears,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Panda Bear,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Newcleus,
Negative Approach,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Groovy Waters,
Skaos,
The Trojans,
Faust,
the Fania All-Stars,
Vladislav Delay,
Motorama,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Move,
Scientists,
Bill Wells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxette,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Charles Mingus,
Flamin' Groovies,
Yellowson,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Slackers,
Duran Duran,
The Golliwogs,
Pylon,
Nas,
Agitation Free,
Brick,
Theoretical Girls,
Los Fastidios,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
China Crisis,
Mandrill,
Bronski Beat,
The Offenders,
E-Dancer,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rapeman,
The Walker Brothers,
Bobby Byrd,
Lou Reed,
Q and Not U,
Franke,
Barrington Levy,
LL Cool J,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marvin Gaye,
Spoonie Gee,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
cv313,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sparks,
Y Pants,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.