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 Zambia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Marine Girls to the electroclash 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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sun Ra,
Hardrive,
The Young Rascals,
Steve Hackett,
Dennis Brown,
Josef K,
Ronnie Foster,
World's Most,
The Motions,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joe Smooth,
Lou Reed,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Fela Kuti,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
B.T. Express,
Groovy Waters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nation of Ulysses,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Peter & Gordon,
Piero Umiliani,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Gladiators,
Trumans Water,
Heaven 17,
Lindisfarne,
EPMD,
K-Klass,
The Skatalites,
Los Fastidios,
Stiv Bators,
The Mummies,
Sunsets and Hearts,
UT,
Rekid,
Audionom,
Mary Jane Girls,
Barclay James Harvest,
Panda Bear,
Toni Rubio,
Todd Rundgren,
Anakelly,
Public Image Ltd.,
Animal Collective,
Japan,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wasted Youth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Livin' Joy,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Archie Shepp,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Sound,
Monks,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Wally Richardson,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.