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 Madagascar and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Schoolly D to the grime 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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
One Last Wish,
Lou Reed,
Pylon,
Jeru the Damaja,
Alice Coltrane,
Andrew Hill,
Nico,
Outsiders,
The Last Poets,
Fat Boys,
Glambeats Corp.,
Roy Ayers,
Electric Prunes,
Frankie Knuckles,
Barry Ungar,
Talk Talk,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mr. Review,
Bad Manners,
Kayak,
Blancmange,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Star Department,
The Red Krayola,
Jeff Lynne,
Lou Christie,
Kevin Saunderson,
Vladislav Delay,
The Monochrome Set,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Faust,
Ossler,
AZ,
Robert Hood,
The Velvet Underground,
Stockholm Monsters,
Negative Approach,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Japan,
Popol Vuh,
These Immortal Souls,
Qualms,
Ten City,
The Victims,
The Seeds,
The Tremeloes,
Drexciya,
Chris Corsano,
The Slackers,
The Electric Prunes,
Rites of Spring,
Metal Thangz,
Mark Hollis,
Crooked Eye,
Mantronix,
Nils Olav,
Max Romeo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Remains,
Echospace,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.