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 Uzbekistan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Dennis Brown to the punk 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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
The Monochrome Set,
Rufus Thomas,
The Cowsills,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mo-Dettes,
Von Mondo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pierre Henry,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Laurel Aitken,
Aloha Tigers,
Rekid,
Moss Icon,
Camouflage,
June of 44,
Livin' Joy,
Gong,
Gil Scott Heron,
Darondo,
Can,
Piero Umiliani,
Alphaville,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Depeche Mode,
Icehouse,
Bobby Byrd,
Section 25,
The Victims,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Connie Case,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Scan 7,
Infiniti,
Sällskapet,
Blancmange,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Excepter,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Black Dice,
The Sonics,
Sex Pistols,
Sonny Sharrock,
Adolescents,
Whodini,
Altered Images,
Flamin' Groovies,
PIL,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DNA,
Buzzcocks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cramps,
Minny Pops,
The Residents,
The Human League,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.