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 Mongolia and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Newcleus to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 United States of America. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Chris & Cosey,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ossler,
Sparks,
Archie Shepp,
Wasted Youth,
Bobby Sherman,
The Stooges,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Lydon,
John Cale,
Scientists,
Sun Ra,
Tres Demented,
In Retrospect,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Massinfluence,
Black Moon,
DJ Style,
Harmonia,
These Immortal Souls,
Marine Girls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Letta Mbulu,
Deadbeat,
Maleditus Sound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Essential Logic,
Deepchord,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fuzztones,
Groovy Waters,
Electric Prunes,
Ken Boothe,
The Cramps,
cv313,
The Vogues,
Monks,
Smog,
Skriet,
Tubeway Army,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Kinks,
Saccharine Trust,
Newcleus,
Erasure,
L. Decosne,
Parry Music,
Lee Hazlewood,
Symarip,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sugar Minott,
Sonic Youth,
The Real Kids,
Ultravox,
Jandek,
Rakim,
The Mojo Men,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.