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 Niger and from Accra.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the 808 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 La Düsseldorf to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Heavy D & The Boyz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Flash Fearless,
Scientists,
Stockholm Monsters,
Infiniti,
Nick Fraelich,
The Sound,
The Smiths,
Gong,
Joe Smooth,
Yazoo,
Camouflage,
Pulsallama,
Soulsonic Force,
Cal Tjader,
Sonic Youth,
Camberwell Now,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Toasters,
The Skatalites,
Michelle Simonal,
The Velvet Underground,
Bobby Sherman,
Matthew Halsall,
Avey Tare,
Matthew Bourne,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Pole,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
A Flock of Seagulls,
PIL,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Little Man,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Robert Hood,
Massinfluence,
Boogie Down Productions,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Black Moon,
The Durutti Column,
June of 44,
Wasted Youth,
Roxette,
The Doors,
Ohio Players,
This Heat,
Jandek,
The Cowsills,
Jesper Dahlback,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Stiv Bators,
Soul II Soul,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Buzzcocks,
DJ Style,
E-Dancer,
Andrew Hill,
Warren Ellis,
Audionom,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.