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 Solomon Islands and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 arpeggiator 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 Gichy Dan to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Warren Ellis,
Arcadia,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lou Reed,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
CMW,
Harpers Bizarre,
Aaron Thompson,
Sight & Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nirvana,
Isaac Hayes,
Pagans,
Mad Mike,
Pole,
Electric Prunes,
The Pop Group,
the Germs,
Main Source,
Mission of Burma,
The Mummies,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Todd Terry,
Erykah Badu,
Freddie Wadling,
Flamin' Groovies,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marine Girls,
Bush Tetras,
H. Thieme,
Jandek,
Hasil Adkins,
UT,
MC5,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Avey Tare,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
48th St. Collective,
Swans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moebius,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Don Cherry,
Darondo,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Stooges,
the Sonics,
The Last Poets,
Gong,
Whodini,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donald Byrd,
F. McDonald,
The Evens,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.