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 Tuvalu and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Columbus.
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 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 Hot Snakes to the rock 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Evens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Basic Channel,
Gang of Four,
Gastr Del Sol,
Youth Brigade,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Order,
Tommy Roe,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Delta 5,
Outsiders,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jerry's Kids,
Bobby Byrd,
Ten City,
Q and Not U,
Hoover,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Walker Brothers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dual Sessions,
MC5,
Motorama,
The Monochrome Set,
The Fugs,
Soul II Soul,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Suicide,
Robert Wyatt,
Lalann,
New Age Steppers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Roxette,
Grandmaster Flash,
Silicon Teens,
The Birthday Party,
Flash Fearless,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sparks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pantaleimon,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pylon,
The Offenders,
These Immortal Souls,
Japan,
AZ,
Ultra Naté,
Todd Terry,
Funky Four + One,
Heaven 17,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Robert Görl,
Lyres,
Altered Images,
Derrick Morgan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Marine Girls,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.