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 Ghana and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Soul Sonic Force to the dance 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Magazine,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Litter,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kenny Larkin,
Yellowson,
The Walker Brothers,
a-ha,
MC5,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bill Near,
The Misunderstood,
Eve St. Jones,
Patti Smith,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
John Cale,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jacob Miller,
Ken Boothe,
Judy Mowatt,
Derrick Morgan,
The Golliwogs,
Buzzcocks,
The Motions,
The Fire Engines,
Barbara Tucker,
Livin' Joy,
Pagans,
Black Flag,
the Bar-Kays,
Audionom,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wings,
Unwound,
U.S. Maple,
Mandrill,
The Remains,
Excepter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Toasters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Beau Brummels,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Aswad,
Warren Ellis,
The Red Krayola,
The Human League,
Loose Ends,
PIL,
Lebanon Hanover,
New York Dolls,
Desert Stars,
Au Pairs,
Ludus,
cv313,
Hot Snakes,
Duran Duran,
Wolf Eyes,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.