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 Pakistan and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Metal Thangz to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
Jacob Miller,
Stetsasonic,
Unwound,
Popol Vuh,
Isaac Hayes,
Bronski Beat,
Chris & Cosey,
Depeche Mode,
Joy Division,
Brick,
Max Romeo,
Eve St. Jones,
KRS-One,
The Divine Comedy,
Susan Cadogan,
Stereo Dub,
The Gap Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
MDC,
Kerrie Biddell,
Skriet,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dark Day,
Soft Cell,
The Remains,
Dawn Penn,
La Düsseldorf,
Sonic Youth,
Suicide,
Mission of Burma,
Soft Machine,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Little Man,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pulsallama,
Spandau Ballet,
Henry Cow,
Rakim,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nik Kershaw,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rosa Yemen,
Trumans Water,
The Mummies,
Gastr Del Sol,
OOIOO,
Reuben Wilson,
Dead Boys,
Pharoah Sanders,
10cc,
Cybotron,
Siglo XX,
Television Personalities,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.