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 Poland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ultravox to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All B.T. Express tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Public Enemy,
ABC,
Ten City,
Yusef Lateef,
Shoche,
Minny Pops,
The J.B.'s,
Fad Gadget,
Symarip,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Sound,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cramps,
Harmonia,
Jeru the Damaja,
Throbbing Gristle,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scientists,
Loose Ends,
The Count Five,
Nils Olav,
The Remains,
Second Layer,
Simply Red,
Jerry's Kids,
The Young Rascals,
Agitation Free,
Yazoo,
The Fuzztones,
Eli Mardock,
Inner City,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fela Kuti,
DJ Sneak,
Janne Schatter,
The Last Poets,
Mantronix,
The Gladiators,
David Bowie,
John Foxx,
Sugar Minott,
Scion,
The Cowsills,
Reagan Youth,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joey Negro,
The Selecter,
Lee Hazlewood,
Matthew Halsall,
Aural Exciters,
Ralphi Rosario,
a-ha,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.