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 Oman and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
New Order,
Cal Tjader,
The Zeros,
Marvin Gaye,
Bobby Hutcherson,
JFA,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Zero Boys,
Black Moon,
Iggy Pop,
Juan Atkins,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Moss Icon,
ABC,
Kurtis Blow,
Gang Starr,
Yusef Lateef,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alison Limerick,
Sight & Sound,
Model 500,
Neil Young,
Television,
The Black Dice,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Reuben Wilson,
Byron Stingily,
R.M.O.,
Sonny Sharrock,
Camberwell Now,
Mark Hollis,
Scan 7,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Morten Harket,
Sun Ra,
Grauzone,
The Monks,
Japan,
China Crisis,
The Blackbyrds,
Marc Almond,
James White and The Blacks,
Sandy B,
Drexciya,
Max Romeo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Soft Cell,
The Mojo Men,
Scion,
Sex Pistols,
The Five Americans,
Henry Cow,
Funky Four + One,
K-Klass,
Talk Talk,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.