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 Afghanistan and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Salvador and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 mellotron 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 Yaz to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Motions,
Sound Behaviour,
Ultra Naté,
Warren Ellis,
Al Stewart,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Wake,
The Doors,
The Searchers,
Dave Gahan,
Altered Images,
The Dirtbombs,
The Gories,
The Doobie Brothers,
Country Teasers,
Brand Nubian,
Scientists,
Hoover,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Saints,
Bizarre Inc.,
Faraquet,
The Moleskins,
Todd Rundgren,
Gong,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cowsills,
Dual Sessions,
China Crisis,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sun City Girls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crooked Eye,
Rufus Thomas,
Mantronix,
Kaleidoscope,
Max Romeo,
Angry Samoans,
The Black Dice,
The Young Rascals,
Quadrant,
Ronnie Foster,
Iggy Pop,
Deadbeat,
the Germs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
D'Angelo,
Organ,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Smiths,
Camouflage,
Mr. Review,
DJ Sneak,
The Leaves,
John Holt,
Soft Machine,
Ponytail,
Eli Mardock,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.