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 Indonesia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 clarinet 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 Absolute Body Control to the dance 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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Infiniti,
Index,
Blossom Toes,
cv313,
Gang Gang Dance,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gap Band,
Ludus,
Sugar Minott,
The Gories,
Saccharine Trust,
Fifty Foot Hose,
MDC,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Shuggie Otis,
Bizarre Inc.,
The J.B.'s,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gabor Szabo,
Ornette Coleman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Aaron Thompson,
The Knickerbockers,
Jandek,
Adolescents,
Main Source,
Al Stewart,
Joe Finger,
Pierre Henry,
Man Eating Sloth,
Buzzcocks,
Soft Machine,
Rotary Connection,
Pharoah Sanders,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lebanon Hanover,
U.S. Maple,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
D'Angelo,
AZ,
The Index,
The United States of America,
Skriet,
Albert Ayler,
Parry Music,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Wake,
Howard Jones,
Nik Kershaw,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Barclay James Harvest,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Hasil Adkins,
Arthur Verocai,
The Selecter,
Alice Coltrane,
Jeff Mills,
LL Cool J,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.