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 Brunei and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Peter & Gordon to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All The Peanut Butter Conspiracy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Circle Jerks,
The American Breed,
Pagans,
Althea and Donna,
Faust,
Agitation Free,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kurtis Blow,
Jeff Mills,
Yellowson,
Silicon Teens,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Zeros,
Whodini,
Blancmange,
Outsiders,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Terry Callier,
Flash Fearless,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joyce Sims,
Theoretical Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
JFA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Animal Collective,
CMW,
Radiohead,
B.T. Express,
Soulsonic Force,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Black Bananas,
Hashim,
Massinfluence,
Pussy Galore,
Piero Umiliani,
Scrapy,
The Music Machine,
Warren Ellis,
Rekid,
Reagan Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Brothers Johnson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eden Ahbez,
Aaron Thompson,
Gang of Four,
Davy DMX,
Accadde A,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sound Behaviour,
Symarip,
Charles Mingus,
The Doors,
Cybotron,
Camberwell Now,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.