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 Thailand and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kevin Saunderson to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tres Demented 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Erasure,
Moss Icon,
AZ,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rosa Yemen,
Jeff Mills,
Loose Ends,
Jawbox,
Black Sheep,
Au Pairs,
Neil Young,
X-102,
The Mojo Men,
Television,
Deepchord,
Warren Ellis,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Neon Judgement,
The Music Machine,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joy Division,
Althea and Donna,
Robert Görl,
The Fuzztones,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Darondo,
Q and Not U,
Carl Craig,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Japan,
Cheater Slicks,
The Motions,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Dead C,
Morten Harket,
Porter Ricks,
Matthew Halsall,
Funky Four + One,
Sonic Youth,
The Toasters,
Kevin Saunderson,
MC5,
Deadbeat,
Slave,
Goldenarms,
48th St. Collective,
The Moody Blues,
Visage,
Schoolly D,
Fat Boys,
F. McDonald,
the Slits,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sister Nancy,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.