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 Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 guitar 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 Panda Bear to the jazz 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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Nas,
Y Pants,
Eurythmics,
Joensuu 1685,
Niagra,
Warren Ellis,
Sound Behaviour,
Dave Gahan,
Excepter,
H. Thieme,
Soul II Soul,
The Move,
Underground Resistance,
Main Source,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scratch Acid,
Funkadelic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Skarface,
Negative Approach,
Patti Smith,
La Düsseldorf,
Severed Heads,
The Motions,
Donald Byrd,
Rod Modell,
Magma,
Depeche Mode,
Rosa Yemen,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Saccharine Trust,
Slick Rick,
Scion,
DJ Sneak,
The Blues Magoos,
Lindisfarne,
John Foxx,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wings,
Tears for Fears,
The Birthday Party,
Sällskapet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Minnie Riperton,
Von Mondo,
Anthony Braxton,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Peter & Gordon,
Average White Band,
Barrington Levy,
Ten City,
The Selecter,
FM Einheit,
Smog,
Sun Ra,
Au Pairs,
Eddi Front,
Panda Bear,
Interpol,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.