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 Antigua and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 chamberlin 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 Godley & Creme to the techno 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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Bill Wells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Eddi Front,
Scrapy,
Barrington Levy,
Royal Trux,
Y Pants,
Magma,
Tom Boy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sugar Minott,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Trumans Water,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Walker Brothers,
Popol Vuh,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Essential Logic,
Faust,
Leonard Cohen,
Severed Heads,
Bauhaus,
Aloha Tigers,
Arthur Verocai,
Hoover,
JFA,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Drexciya,
Robert Wyatt,
Mandrill,
The New Christs,
Minor Threat,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Techniques,
Aaron Thompson,
The J.B.'s,
The Smiths,
EPMD,
Simply Red,
Q and Not U,
Masters at Work,
Panda Bear,
Gastr Del Sol,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Sonics,
The Blackbyrds,
Laurel Aitken,
Angry Samoans,
Idris Muhammad,
The Wake,
Lungfish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Robert Görl,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Slick Rick,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pere Ubu,
Franke,
Silicon Teens,
Flipper,
AZ,
Danielle Patucci,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.