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 Dominica and from Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Stockholm.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Selecter. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pussy Galore,
ABBA,
Connie Case,
Swell Maps,
The Cowsills,
DJ Sneak,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Durutti Column,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
These Immortal Souls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Modern Lovers,
Bauhaus,
Erasure,
Thompson Twins,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Leaves,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
One Last Wish,
David Axelrod,
Roxy Music,
Eden Ahbez,
DJ Style,
Negative Approach,
Derrick May,
Blossom Toes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Duran Duran,
X-Ray Spex,
Peter and Kerry,
Piero Umiliani,
Marc Almond,
Delon & Dalcan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Laurel Aitken,
Archie Shepp,
Camouflage,
Tom Boy,
Hot Snakes,
Kenny Larkin,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Selecter,
B.T. Express,
Agent Orange,
Altered Images,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soft Machine,
Prince Buster,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Little Man,
the Fania All-Stars,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jimmy McGriff,
MC5,
Talk Talk,
Kas Product,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.