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 Saudi Arabia and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Donald Fagen 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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 Fuzztones,
the Human League,
Dark Day,
Morten Harket,
Mission of Burma,
Von Mondo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Zapp,
EPMD,
Yellowson,
Chris & Cosey,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wasted Youth,
Pere Ubu,
Ludus,
Trumans Water,
The Last Poets,
The Alarm Clocks,
Adolescents,
Cymande,
Howard Jones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gang Gang Dance,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Royal Trux,
Mars,
Brick,
Prince Buster,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Iggy Pop,
The Cure,
John Coltrane,
Lalann,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
CMW,
Alton Ellis,
The Raincoats,
MC5,
Mo-Dettes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Vogues,
Peter & Gordon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Tremeloes,
Nirvana,
The Moleskins,
Sugar Minott,
Davy DMX,
Buzzcocks,
Radiopuhelimet,
Magazine,
Au Pairs,
Maleditus Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
Avey Tare,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Thee Headcoats,
Swans,
DNA,
MDC,
Marshall Jefferson,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.