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 Japan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bill Near to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Pulsallama,
Ornette Coleman,
Drive Like Jehu,
David Bowie,
Soul Sonic Force,
David McCallum,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Music Machine,
Dark Day,
The Real Kids,
Freddie Wadling,
Magazine,
Amazonics,
June of 44,
Gang Green,
Audionom,
Tomorrow,
T.S.O.L.,
Agent Orange,
Spandau Ballet,
Minor Threat,
Soul II Soul,
New York Dolls,
Derrick May,
L. Decosne,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Happenings,
Yazoo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Country Teasers,
ABBA,
The Human League,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nick Fraelich,
The Stooges,
Hot Snakes,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Moleskins,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Siglo XX,
Suicide,
The Busters,
Bill Near,
Smog,
Half Japanese,
Rakim,
Crispian St. Peters,
Chris & Cosey,
The Wake,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
EPMD,
The Cowsills,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Von Mondo,
Bronski Beat,
Kas Product,
Bill Wells,
Soulsonic Force,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.