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 Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Lower 48 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Procol Harum,
One Last Wish,
Darondo,
The New Christs,
Lindisfarne,
Con Funk Shun,
The Doobie Brothers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ornette Coleman,
Black Moon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Idris Muhammad,
Robert Görl,
The Searchers,
Sound Behaviour,
The Standells,
Half Japanese,
The Fire Engines,
Eli Mardock,
the Slits,
Yellowson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sparks,
Sight & Sound,
Metal Thangz,
Moby Grape,
Todd Terry,
the Bar-Kays,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Whodini,
Mary Jane Girls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sam Rivers,
Archie Shepp,
Toni Rubio,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed,
Soul II Soul,
Ten City,
The Selecter,
Porter Ricks,
Popol Vuh,
Tears for Fears,
the Association,
Youth Brigade,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gang Starr,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ludus,
Tom Boy,
Yusef Lateef,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Electric Prunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roy Ayers,
The American Breed,
The Pretty Things,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Raincoats,
Cecil Taylor,
Desert Stars,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.