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 Spain and from Bremen.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Laurel Aitken to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Amon Düül II,
Lindisfarne,
Rotary Connection,
Deepchord,
Wire,
Hot Snakes,
The Victims,
Rosa Yemen,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Colin Newman,
Country Teasers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ronnie Foster,
Spoonie Gee,
Crooked Eye,
Khruangbin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Selecter,
The Fugs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Vainqueur,
Groovy Waters,
John Foxx,
Pantaleimon,
Soul II Soul,
the Sonics,
Banda Bassotti,
Fela Kuti,
Stetsasonic,
The Residents,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bobby Sherman,
Chris Corsano,
Sugar Minott,
The Gap Band,
Babytalk,
Masters at Work,
Sight & Sound,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mad Mike,
Laurel Aitken,
Flipper,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Todd Terry,
Godley & Creme,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Human League,
The Walker Brothers,
The Pop Group,
Depeche Mode,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gang Green,
the Bar-Kays,
The Raincoats,
The Golliwogs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hasil Adkins,
The Martian,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.