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 Jamaica and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Seoul.
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 marimba 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 Black Moon 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 Ultra Naté. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Duran Duran,
Scrapy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Suicide,
Arab on Radar,
Marine Girls,
Lucky Dragons,
Pole,
James White and The Blacks,
John Coltrane,
Rites of Spring,
Trumans Water,
Pantaleimon,
Sarah Menescal,
Peter and Kerry,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Happenings,
Roxy Music,
Carl Craig,
Bobby Hutcherson,
D'Angelo,
Danielle Patucci,
Newcleus,
Cluster,
Aural Exciters,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Janne Schatter,
Grey Daturas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
John Cale,
Fad Gadget,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scion,
The Tremeloes,
The Cowsills,
Roy Ayers,
the Sonics,
Tommy Roe,
ABBA,
June Days,
Sun Ra,
The Index,
Ponytail,
Reuben Wilson,
Theoretical Girls,
Scan 7,
Fluxion,
H. Thieme,
Max Romeo,
Pussy Galore,
Severed Heads,
Lalo Schifrin,
Loose Ends,
JFA,
Aswad,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jesper Dahlback,
Black Pus,
Lungfish,
Jeff Mills,
Todd Rundgren,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.