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 Mali and from Salvador.
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 Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 Eve St. Jones to the rap 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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacques Brel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Erasure,
Main Source,
LL Cool J,
Grandmaster Flash,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Qualms,
Hasil Adkins,
Basic Channel,
Yellowson,
Patti Smith,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Eric Copeland,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wasted Youth,
Rod Modell,
Idris Muhammad,
Unwound,
Glambeats Corp.,
Saccharine Trust,
The Barracudas,
the Bar-Kays,
Alton Ellis,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Yaz,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Mills,
Gang Starr,
Electric Prunes,
The Names,
Public Enemy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gong,
Grey Daturas,
Sister Nancy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Underground Resistance,
Blossom Toes,
Soul II Soul,
Arcadia,
The Sonics,
The Moody Blues,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Delta 5,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Associates,
Absolute Body Control,
Faust,
Grauzone,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camouflage,
Aaron Thompson,
Lungfish,
EPMD,
X-101,
The Fuzztones,
Iggy Pop,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.