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 Serbia and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 John Coltrane to the jazz 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway 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?
Royal Trux,
Swans,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Average White Band,
Derrick May,
Albert Ayler,
ABC,
Glambeats Corp.,
Donald Byrd,
Mad Mike,
Audionom,
Jeff Mills,
The Techniques,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Neon Judgement,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Steve Hackett,
Wolf Eyes,
Surgeon,
Judy Mowatt,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sarah Menescal,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Goldenarms,
Byron Stingily,
The Happenings,
Faraquet,
The Slackers,
Carl Craig,
Eddi Front,
Radio Birdman,
L. Decosne,
Ken Boothe,
Siglo XX,
Nils Olav,
Stetsasonic,
Morten Harket,
Quantec,
Severed Heads,
The Doors,
Nick Fraelich,
Babytalk,
Ohio Players,
Massinfluence,
the Normal,
Stockholm Monsters,
Anthony Braxton,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sparks,
The Remains,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eli Mardock,
Chris & Cosey,
Wally Richardson,
Pantytec,
Lucky Dragons,
Swell Maps,
Monolake,
The Standells,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.