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 Slovenia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rod Modell to the jazz 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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Joy Division,
The Dave Clark Five,
Warren Ellis,
The Smoke,
Bootsy Collins,
Brass Construction,
Toni Rubio,
Cluster,
Siglo XX,
Al Stewart,
Adolescents,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bauhaus,
Chris & Cosey,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fluxion,
Panda Bear,
Danielle Patucci,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
10cc,
Whodini,
Pantytec,
Black Bananas,
Minnie Riperton,
Unwound,
Schoolly D,
Hardrive,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Todd Terry,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lou Christie,
Metal Thangz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Golliwogs,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Tubeway Army,
cv313,
Crash Course in Science,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Deepchord,
Albert Ayler,
Blancmange,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Fuzztones,
Soft Machine,
The Angels of Light,
The Divine Comedy,
Agitation Free,
Marvin Gaye,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tropical Tobacco,
Average White Band,
Pylon,
Suburban Knight,
The Invisible,
Black Pus,
Fatback Band,
Masters at Work,
Wire,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Mummies,
Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas.
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.