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 Libya and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Lille and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Scott Walker to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
Moss Icon,
The United States of America,
Model 500,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bootsy Collins,
Nik Kershaw,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Cramps,
Connie Case,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Accadde A,
Wings,
Khruangbin,
Severed Heads,
Reuben Wilson,
Lungfish,
Radiohead,
Alton Ellis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Basic Channel,
Lower 48,
Das Ding,
Ice-T,
Janne Schatter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Index,
Todd Rundgren,
Little Man,
Eve St. Jones,
Minny Pops,
Jeff Lynne,
UT,
R.M.O.,
The J.B.'s,
Suburban Knight,
Public Enemy,
Dorothy Ashby,
One Last Wish,
The Angels of Light,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Peter & Gordon,
Electric Prunes,
The Cure,
Colin Newman,
Mo-Dettes,
CMW,
Chris Corsano,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Whodini,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joey Negro,
The Saints,
The Sound,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Smog,
The Golliwogs,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.