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 Vietnam and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Joe Smooth to the grime 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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Wells,
Charles Mingus,
David Axelrod,
Boogie Down Productions,
Amazonics,
Heaven 17,
Fad Gadget,
Con Funk Shun,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fatback Band,
The Litter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Slave,
Lyres,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Unwound,
The Pretty Things,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Piero Umiliani,
Second Layer,
Henry Cow,
Gerry Rafferty,
Althea and Donna,
Interpol,
Dawn Penn,
Moss Icon,
Harry Pussy,
Gong,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Leonard Cohen,
Faraquet,
Nils Olav,
Faust,
Minor Threat,
DNA,
Johnny Osbourne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Clear Light,
Goldenarms,
Johnny Clarke,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fear,
Rotary Connection,
Nick Fraelich,
Warren Ellis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Last Poets,
Monks,
Bobby Byrd,
Underground Resistance,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Alton Ellis,
World's Most,
Rakim,
Pussy Galore,
Gang Starr,
The American Breed,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.