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 Seychelles and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar 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 Brothers Johnson to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Ultra Naté,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Royal Trux,
the Sonics,
Surgeon,
Tubeway Army,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scion,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
8 Eyed Spy,
June of 44,
Pole,
Eric B and Rakim,
Chris Corsano,
Nick Fraelich,
The Vogues,
Gang Gang Dance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ten City,
The Dirtbombs,
Marshall Jefferson,
Joey Negro,
Amon Düül II,
DNA,
The Human League,
Matthew Bourne,
The Monochrome Set,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
These Immortal Souls,
Bob Dylan,
Man Parrish,
Howard Jones,
Terrestrial Tones,
Masters at Work,
Agitation Free,
The Cure,
The Tremeloes,
Brothers Johnson,
Motorama,
Erykah Badu,
Mo-Dettes,
A Certain Ratio,
Iggy Pop,
Sonic Youth,
Shoche,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Young Rascals,
Los Fastidios,
Tommy Roe,
Symarip,
The Last Poets,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Eve St. Jones,
David Bowie,
Jeff Lynne,
Soul II Soul,
Kenny Larkin,
Panda Bear,
The Residents,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.