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 Colombia and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 synthesizer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the disco 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms 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?
The Victims,
Sixth Finger,
Adolescents,
Roxy Music,
Kas Product,
Fat Boys,
The Black Dice,
Gong,
Country Teasers,
Lou Reed,
Boz Scaggs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marc Almond,
Black Sheep,
Sound Behaviour,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mummies,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nirvana,
Tommy Roe,
Scott Walker,
Gerry Rafferty,
Urselle,
Neil Young,
Au Pairs,
ABBA,
DJ Style,
Jacob Miller,
The Remains,
The Sonics,
Essential Logic,
Unwound,
Ornette Coleman,
Iggy Pop,
Organ,
8 Eyed Spy,
Agitation Free,
DNA,
Barbara Tucker,
Yaz,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Zapp,
Scan 7,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Litter,
Tim Buckley,
Lungfish,
Nick Fraelich,
Fad Gadget,
John Coltrane,
Symarip,
The Selecter,
Hardrive,
Faraquet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Camouflage,
Severed Heads,
Scion,
Black Flag,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Andrew Hill,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.