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 Malta and from Seoul.
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 Woodstock and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mantronix to the crunk 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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Joensuu 1685,
Guru Guru,
Barbara Tucker,
The Black Dice,
Fela Kuti,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Peter & Gordon,
The Five Americans,
Robert Hood,
Michelle Simonal,
John Lydon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sun Ra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Cramps,
Eric Dolphy,
Lou Reed,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kenny Larkin,
MDC,
Faust,
John Cale,
DJ Style,
The United States of America,
Accadde A,
Bad Manners,
The Tremeloes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nirvana,
Jeff Mills,
The Smoke,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Angels of Light,
Magazine,
Joe Finger,
Lakeside,
Porter Ricks,
Desert Stars,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bootsy Collins,
Chris Corsano,
Mars,
Y Pants,
Popol Vuh,
Jawbox,
The Mojo Men,
L. Decosne,
Scratch Acid,
Soft Cell,
The Fuzztones,
Public Image Ltd.,
Big Daddy Kane,
Icehouse,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ronan,
K-Klass,
Jeru the Damaja,
Thee Headcoats,
Black Sheep,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.