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 Austria and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the grime 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lightning Bolt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
DJ Style,
Ituana,
The Velvet Underground,
Johnny Clarke,
Radiopuhelimet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roy Ayers,
Archie Shepp,
Robert Görl,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Freddie Wadling,
Zapp,
The Cramps,
Mantronix,
Leonard Cohen,
Grandmaster Flash,
Duran Duran,
June Days,
Junior Murvin,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bob Dylan,
Neil Young,
The Residents,
Agent Orange,
Index,
Stockholm Monsters,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kurtis Blow,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Carl Craig,
The Busters,
The Barracudas,
A Certain Ratio,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Liliput,
Marmalade,
Pantytec,
Iggy Pop,
Make Up,
Circle Jerks,
Japan,
Max Romeo,
the Slits,
Tubeway Army,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
AZ,
Agitation Free,
Public Enemy,
KRS-One,
Letta Mbulu,
Ralphi Rosario,
David Axelrod,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bauhaus,
Danielle Patucci,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.