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 Mauritania and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 snare 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 Kaleidoscope to the jazz 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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Stereo Dub,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Grey Daturas,
Sam Rivers,
Kerri Chandler,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ultra Naté,
Freddie Wadling,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Janne Schatter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ten City,
Gang Gang Dance,
Roxette,
Matthew Bourne,
Organ,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bauhaus,
CMW,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lightning Bolt,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eric Dolphy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
L. Decosne,
Rod Modell,
Jacob Miller,
DNA,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Five Americans,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
ABBA,
Altered Images,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Agitation Free,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jandek,
Dual Sessions,
Inner City,
Parry Music,
Rekid,
Colin Newman,
Saccharine Trust,
Hasil Adkins,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Negative Approach,
Soft Cell,
Sandy B,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Wake,
Letta Mbulu,
the Human League,
Dawn Penn,
Anakelly,
K-Klass,
Scott Walker,
Mark Hollis,
Dave Gahan,
Peter & Gordon,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.