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 United States and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the dance 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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
The Associates,
Dennis Brown,
Junior Murvin,
Faraquet,
Barrington Levy,
Eli Mardock,
Sunsets and Hearts,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Das Ding,
AZ,
Masters at Work,
Flash Fearless,
the Swans,
Juan Atkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Flesh Eaters,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Magma,
Maurizio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter and Kerry,
Robert Hood,
Ronan,
Alphaville,
L. Decosne,
Animal Collective,
Radio Birdman,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Sonics,
The Gap Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Trumans Water,
Roger Hodgson,
Interpol,
Can,
Zero Boys,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fire Engines,
Terrestrial Tones,
CMW,
Sarah Menescal,
LL Cool J,
The Birthday Party,
Kayak,
Swans,
The Human League,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Livin' Joy,
Lucky Dragons,
The Durutti Column,
Tim Buckley,
The Mojo Men,
Minnie Riperton,
Joe Finger,
Sixth Finger,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mo-Dettes,
Ronnie Foster,
Black Moon,
Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy.
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.