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 Burkina and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Trojans to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Cal Tjader,
Gang of Four,
Supertramp,
Ohio Players,
Anakelly,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
John Holt,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lyres,
The Associates,
Drive Like Jehu,
June Days,
Roy Ayers,
Bobby Sherman,
The Golliwogs,
Khruangbin,
AZ,
Fad Gadget,
Sun City Girls,
Jandek,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Clear Light,
Gabor Szabo,
Fela Kuti,
Rites of Spring,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Erykah Badu,
The Doobie Brothers,
Crispy Ambulance,
X-101,
Tommy Roe,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Judy Mowatt,
Suburban Knight,
Neil Young,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jacques Brel,
Davy DMX,
OOIOO,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Toasters,
The Birthday Party,
Slick Rick,
Delta 5,
the Soft Cell,
Lightning Bolt,
Liliput,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Andrew Hill,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Newcleus,
These Immortal Souls,
Qualms,
MC5,
Pagans,
The Young Rascals,
Mantronix,
Siglo XX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.