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 New Zealand and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Can to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Procol Harum,
Michelle Simonal,
Joyce Sims,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bluetip,
Kaleidoscope,
a-ha,
Suicide,
Fear,
Royal Trux,
Susan Cadogan,
John Foxx,
Swans,
UT,
New Age Steppers,
Gichy Dan,
Motorama,
Soft Cell,
The Associates,
Scientists,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lower 48,
Alice Coltrane,
Boogie Down Productions,
Anthony Braxton,
Make Up,
Amon Düül II,
Sun Ra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Sonics,
Sister Nancy,
The Cowsills,
Television Personalities,
Kerrie Biddell,
Television,
The Toasters,
DNA,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Selecter,
Sonic Youth,
CMW,
Avey Tare,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
U.S. Maple,
The Fortunes,
Pulsallama,
JFA,
Magazine,
Porter Ricks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Livin' Joy,
D'Angelo,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Godley & Creme,
The Skatalites,
Icehouse,
Thompson Twins,
Eric Copeland,
The Doobie Brothers,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.