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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 harpsichord 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 Pylon to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
The Velvet Underground,
Hardrive,
Charles Mingus,
Average White Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Das Ding,
Sun Ra,
Erykah Badu,
Eric Copeland,
Underground Resistance,
Bill Wells,
Ludus,
Gerry Rafferty,
Barclay James Harvest,
Slick Rick,
The Fall,
Ponytail,
Faust,
Chrome,
The Sonics,
Sister Nancy,
Arthur Verocai,
Rites of Spring,
Sonic Youth,
Ice-T,
Leonard Cohen,
Scratch Acid,
Avey Tare,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
June of 44,
Stereo Dub,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Stetsasonic,
Bill Near,
Bauhaus,
Jeff Lynne,
The Gap Band,
Masters at Work,
Thompson Twins,
Simply Red,
Electric Light Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Motorama,
Alton Ellis,
Pussy Galore,
Donny Hathaway,
In Retrospect,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Janne Schatter,
Clear Light,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Silicon Teens,
48th St. Collective,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Grauzone,
The Wake,
Suburban Knight,
Ten City,
Jerry's Kids,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.