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 Liechtenstein and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Scrapy to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sarah Menescal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Last Poets record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Theoretical Girls,
La Düsseldorf,
The New Christs,
Deepchord,
Matthew Bourne,
Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cecil Taylor,
The Young Rascals,
Make Up,
Zapp,
John Holt,
Ronan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Flash Fearless,
Shuggie Otis,
Mission of Burma,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Five Americans,
The Trojans,
Eden Ahbez,
David Bowie,
Von Mondo,
Bang On A Can,
Girls At Our Best!,
K-Klass,
Guru Guru,
The Grass Roots,
Eli Mardock,
Avey Tare,
The Sonics,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Black Dice,
Carl Craig,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Zeros,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobby Womack,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Residents,
X-102,
Harry Pussy,
Peter & Gordon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Malaria!,
Judy Mowatt,
Minnie Riperton,
Erykah Badu,
Subhumans,
Lucky Dragons,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Soft Cell,
Neil Young,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pere Ubu,
Popol Vuh,
Letta Mbulu,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dark Day,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.