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 Yemen and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 oboe 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 Morten Harket to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
Saccharine Trust,
Nico,
Camberwell Now,
The Golliwogs,
The Sound,
Fear,
Maurizio,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Smiths,
Loose Ends,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Neon Judgement,
Black Flag,
MDC,
The Seeds,
The Moody Blues,
Theoretical Girls,
Glambeats Corp.,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Cecil Taylor,
Section 25,
The Motions,
Desert Stars,
a-ha,
Inner City,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Knickerbockers,
Pantaleimon,
Malaria!,
Soul Sonic Force,
FM Einheit,
T.S.O.L.,
Donald Byrd,
The Associates,
The Modern Lovers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Chris & Cosey,
Morten Harket,
Hoover,
Make Up,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tom Boy,
Cymande,
Stiv Bators,
Jeff Lynne,
Brothers Johnson,
Lalo Schifrin,
The American Breed,
Lalann,
Lightning Bolt,
Moebius,
Isaac Hayes,
Silicon Teens,
John Holt,
Easy Going,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tim Buckley,
Yaz,
UT,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.