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 Vanuatu and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soft Cell to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Fania All-Stars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Khruangbin,
Pantytec,
The Young Rascals,
Scion,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Motions,
Das Ding,
Quando Quango,
Gong,
Newcleus,
Barbara Tucker,
The Evens,
Grauzone,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camberwell Now,
Yaz,
EPMD,
Boz Scaggs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Judy Mowatt,
Jeff Mills,
Ronan,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Neon Judgement,
The Music Machine,
Mandrill,
Los Fastidios,
Altered Images,
The Buckinghams,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ponytail,
Fluxion,
Lindisfarne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bad Manners,
the Association,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bobby Byrd,
Thompson Twins,
The Pretty Things,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Moss Icon,
Unwound,
Section 25,
Q65,
The Zeros,
Max Romeo,
Lakeside,
Banda Bassotti,
R.M.O.,
Niagra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gastr Del Sol,
Inner City,
Barrington Levy,
Todd Rundgren,
Rotary Connection,
Moebius,
Lower 48,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.