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 Bhutan and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rekid to the jazz 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Roxette,
Kaleidoscope,
Erykah Badu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Albert Ayler,
Max Romeo,
The Slits,
Tomorrow,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Alphaville,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kenny Larkin,
The Golliwogs,
Erasure,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jawbox,
Sam Rivers,
cv313,
The Raincoats,
Ronnie Foster,
Depeche Mode,
Glenn Branca,
Nico,
Reuben Wilson,
kango's stein massive,
These Immortal Souls,
Audionom,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pantytec,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delta 5,
Simply Red,
Sarah Menescal,
The Wake,
KRS-One,
Anakelly,
Chris Corsano,
Fatback Band,
Bootsy Collins,
Minnie Riperton,
Davy DMX,
James Chance & The Contortions,
New York Dolls,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nirvana,
The Gories,
Alton Ellis,
The Names,
the Human League,
Aural Exciters,
Roxy Music,
Ice-T,
Babytalk,
Ultravox,
Schoolly D,
Arcadia,
The Mummies,
The Divine Comedy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lindisfarne,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.