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 Albania and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Peter & Gordon to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
Echospace,
Groovy Waters,
Roy Ayers,
Maurizio,
Scan 7,
Lee Hazlewood,
Matthew Bourne,
Mars,
Unwound,
The Pop Group,
Rufus Thomas,
The Cure,
Au Pairs,
Lightning Bolt,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sarah Menescal,
Aloha Tigers,
Moss Icon,
Fela Kuti,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gun Club,
The New Christs,
The Music Machine,
Derrick Morgan,
Oneida,
Neu!,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
In Retrospect,
Pere Ubu,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nik Kershaw,
Alison Limerick,
Connie Case,
Minor Threat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Association,
Sun City Girls,
Lalann,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Duran Duran,
Kurtis Blow,
Pulsallama,
Mark Hollis,
Cybotron,
Ultra Naté,
the Germs,
Roger Hodgson,
The Count Five,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Television Personalities,
Procol Harum,
Derrick May,
U.S. Maple,
Skaos,
Aural Exciters,
These Immortal Souls,
Siglo XX,
The Smiths,
Suburban Knight,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia, Harmonia.
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.