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 Marshall Islands and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 EPMD to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Duran Duran,
EPMD,
Bobby Womack,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mantronix,
Tim Buckley,
Hot Snakes,
The Last Poets,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marvin Gaye,
Lalo Schifrin,
Buzzcocks,
L. Decosne,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jawbox,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
CMW,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Black Flag,
The Wake,
Inner City,
The Modern Lovers,
Lightning Bolt,
Soulsonic Force,
Joe Finger,
Johnny Osbourne,
Alton Ellis,
The Move,
Pole,
Matthew Halsall,
Trumans Water,
Bluetip,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Subhumans,
Absolute Body Control,
Pylon,
Outsiders,
kango's stein massive,
The Mojo Men,
Gang Green,
Lou Christie,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Suburban Knight,
Marc Almond,
Interpol,
The Martian,
Rufus Thomas,
Todd Rundgren,
Qualms,
The Gladiators,
Das Ding,
Aural Exciters,
The Cramps,
T. Rex,
Mission of Burma,
Sonic Youth,
Silicon Teens,
Albert Ayler,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
June of 44,
Kerrie Biddell,
Juan Atkins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.