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 Moldova and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 John Holt to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacques Brel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Residents,
Livin' Joy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soul II Soul,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cheater Slicks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
David Axelrod,
Judy Mowatt,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Subhumans,
Au Pairs,
Severed Heads,
The Golliwogs,
FM Einheit,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Techniques,
David McCallum,
Carl Craig,
The Smoke,
Peter and Kerry,
Agitation Free,
The Alarm Clocks,
Anthony Braxton,
Dawn Penn,
the Germs,
Dave Gahan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wasted Youth,
Brand Nubian,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Qualms,
Lou Christie,
Radiohead,
Alphaville,
Freddie Wadling,
Scratch Acid,
Gang Green,
Public Image Ltd.,
Janne Schatter,
The United States of America,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Velvet Underground,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Knickerbockers,
Chris Corsano,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marmalade,
The Smiths,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nation of Ulysses,
H. Thieme,
The Gun Club,
Harpers Bizarre,
James White and The Blacks,
Bush Tetras,
The Index,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.