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 Cambodia and from Seoul.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Interpol to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Eli Mardock,
Darondo,
Cal Tjader,
Boz Scaggs,
Ornette Coleman,
Oneida,
Livin' Joy,
Ten City,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rites of Spring,
Public Image Ltd.,
Scan 7,
Funky Four + One,
Radiohead,
Curtis Mayfield,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Siglo XX,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roxy Music,
The Music Machine,
48th St. Collective,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bob Dylan,
Godley & Creme,
Radiopuhelimet,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Index,
Janne Schatter,
FM Einheit,
Crispy Ambulance,
B.T. Express,
Sonic Youth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Motions,
Brick,
Bobby Womack,
Chris Corsano,
Rakim,
Lakeside,
Spandau Ballet,
Gastr Del Sol,
Stockholm Monsters,
Archie Shepp,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sparks,
UT,
F. McDonald,
Funkadelic,
Davy DMX,
Whodini,
R.M.O.,
Jacob Miller,
The Birthday Party,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Depeche Mode,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Chrome,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.