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 the UAE and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 Tokyo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 mellotron 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 Drive Like Jehu to the disco 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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Funkadelic,
Lindisfarne,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Soft Cell,
L. Decosne,
Pantytec,
Wasted Youth,
Bootsy Collins,
Make Up,
Ten City,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Invisible,
Cymande,
Essential Logic,
Dark Day,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rites of Spring,
Rufus Thomas,
Todd Terry,
Piero Umiliani,
Lyres,
Leonard Cohen,
Stockholm Monsters,
Q65,
Bobby Sherman,
Josef K,
the Bar-Kays,
Electric Prunes,
The Music Machine,
The Beau Brummels,
The Tremeloes,
Arcadia,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Wake,
The Evens,
The Move,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
New Order,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Talk Talk,
Byron Stingily,
MC5,
Toni Rubio,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Quando Quango,
The Associates,
Severed Heads,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Divine Comedy,
Von Mondo,
Arab on Radar,
The Toasters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Donny Hathaway,
The Sound,
Sugar Minott,
Isaac Hayes,
The Names,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Aaron Thompson,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.