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 Jordan and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 oboe 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 Y Pants to the funk 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Saccharine Trust,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jacob Miller,
Little Man,
Television,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Be Bop Deluxe,
CMW,
Byron Stingily,
FM Einheit,
Mad Mike,
Darondo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pierre Henry,
Blake Baxter,
The Associates,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Divine Comedy,
Slick Rick,
Sun City Girls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Country Teasers,
Alton Ellis,
Cecil Taylor,
Tim Buckley,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
48th St. Collective,
Cluster,
Slave,
Moss Icon,
the Slits,
Depeche Mode,
Ultravox,
Fatback Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Buzzcocks,
Warsaw,
Eddi Front,
Donny Hathaway,
The Cowsills,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ronan,
Kas Product,
Jacques Brel,
KRS-One,
Sparks,
Subhumans,
Freddie Wadling,
Excepter,
The Move,
T.S.O.L.,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Shadows of Knight,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Archie Shepp,
Kerri Chandler,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.