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 Gabon and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manila.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Real Kids to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Lower 48,
The Golliwogs,
Ken Boothe,
Reuben Wilson,
The Angels of Light,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sun Ra,
Negative Approach,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Divine Comedy,
Scrapy,
Albert Ayler,
Sound Behaviour,
Lightning Bolt,
Severed Heads,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Roger Hodgson,
Reagan Youth,
Robert Hood,
Half Japanese,
Funky Four + One,
Bad Manners,
The Fuzztones,
Animal Collective,
Chris Corsano,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Darondo,
Joensuu 1685,
The Doors,
Chris & Cosey,
Cymande,
Tom Boy,
Public Enemy,
The Moleskins,
James White and The Blacks,
Theoretical Girls,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mark Hollis,
Flamin' Groovies,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Motions,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Zeros,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Black Dice,
Parry Music,
Jandek,
The Barracudas,
Pantaleimon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Neon Judgement,
The Gladiators,
The Five Americans,
Unrelated Segments,
Thompson Twins,
Erykah Badu,
Faraquet,
Fatback Band,
Deakin,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.