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 St Lucia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Pop Group to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Section 25,
Darondo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cybotron,
PIL,
Arthur Verocai,
Vainqueur,
The Gap Band,
Amon Düül II,
Kerri Chandler,
Danielle Patucci,
Country Teasers,
Boredoms,
Nirvana,
Black Moon,
E-Dancer,
Mo-Dettes,
Public Enemy,
Marvin Gaye,
Todd Rundgren,
Skaos,
Trumans Water,
Minutemen,
Black Pus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Derrick Morgan,
Groovy Waters,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Alison Limerick,
Hardrive,
Man Parrish,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lakeside,
Alphaville,
Marcia Griffiths,
X-102,
Jacques Brel,
Fad Gadget,
Excepter,
Flash Fearless,
Livin' Joy,
The Fuzztones,
The Evens,
Ronnie Foster,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
James White and The Blacks,
Cheater Slicks,
UT,
Suburban Knight,
CMW,
Soft Cell,
Gang Green,
Big Daddy Kane,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Mission of Burma,
Reuben Wilson,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ponytail,
Isaac Hayes,
Bob Dylan,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.