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 India and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Litter to the disco 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
CMW,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Brand Nubian,
Peter & Gordon,
Easy Going,
Simply Red,
The Alarm Clocks,
Minnie Riperton,
Dennis Brown,
The Motions,
Avey Tare,
The Fortunes,
Flash Fearless,
Joy Division,
The Cowsills,
Nils Olav,
The Searchers,
Todd Rundgren,
June Days,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joe Smooth,
Eric B and Rakim,
Masters at Work,
Vainqueur,
Skarface,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Qualms,
The Dave Clark Five,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fat Boys,
Japan,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Popol Vuh,
K-Klass,
Jerry's Kids,
Loose Ends,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Shadows of Knight,
Donny Hathaway,
Crime,
Lou Reed,
Yaz,
Audionom,
Boredoms,
Alison Limerick,
Sugar Minott,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sparks,
Blancmange,
Rites of Spring,
Mary Jane Girls,
Deadbeat,
Swans,
Lower 48,
Camberwell Now,
Rotary Connection,
Lalann,
Henry Cow,
Trumans Water,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.