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 Nepal and from London.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Mary Jane Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
Grandmaster Flash,
Cameo,
The Dead C,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mary Jane Girls,
Average White Band,
In Retrospect,
Amazonics,
Khruangbin,
Hardrive,
Todd Rundgren,
Interpol,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Livin' Joy,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Fania All-Stars,
Half Japanese,
Amon Düül II,
Pussy Galore,
Kayak,
Franke,
Motorama,
Peter & Gordon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Erykah Badu,
X-101,
Nik Kershaw,
Ohio Players,
Loose Ends,
Andrew Hill,
The Buckinghams,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eric Dolphy,
The Electric Prunes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eddi Front,
Glambeats Corp.,
Youth Brigade,
Masters at Work,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Fire Engines,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Todd Terry,
Ice-T,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
New Age Steppers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Hoover,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pierre Henry,
Scott Walker,
Negative Approach,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dennis Brown,
Fat Boys,
Liliput,
Scan 7,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.