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 Morocco and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb 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 Danielle Patucci to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
The Fall,
New Order,
John Cale,
Soulsonic Force,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Sheep,
ABBA,
Television Personalities,
Prince Buster,
Ituana,
Henry Cow,
Michelle Simonal,
Icehouse,
Animal Collective,
Crime,
The New Christs,
FM Einheit,
the Swans,
La Düsseldorf,
Amon Düül,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry's Kids,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Hot Snakes,
Sarah Menescal,
The Leaves,
Cheater Slicks,
The Raincoats,
Donald Byrd,
Letta Mbulu,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Roxy Music,
Joe Finger,
Faraquet,
Joey Negro,
Jeff Lynne,
Newcleus,
The Index,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Wake,
LL Cool J,
Harpers Bizarre,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
F. McDonald,
Byron Stingily,
The United States of America,
Colin Newman,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bob Dylan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
China Crisis,
The Birthday Party,
Crooked Eye,
Lou Reed,
Boz Scaggs,
Index,
Rod Modell,
Echospace,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.