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 Malaysia 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 Lagos and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Mummies to the dance 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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Soft Machine,
Tom Boy,
Los Fastidios,
In Retrospect,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Stetsasonic,
Matthew Halsall,
Motorama,
Rotary Connection,
MC5,
Lightning Bolt,
The Offenders,
Ponytail,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Invisible,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Five Americans,
The Remains,
X-102,
The Fall,
Todd Terry,
Saccharine Trust,
Organ,
Eurythmics,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bauhaus,
Maleditus Sound,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rufus Thomas,
Nirvana,
Man Eating Sloth,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Searchers,
Judy Mowatt,
Fluxion,
F. McDonald,
Steve Hackett,
Intrusion,
Whodini,
Sam Rivers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soul II Soul,
Mark Hollis,
Wolf Eyes,
Urselle,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mandrill,
The Motions,
Fad Gadget,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Shoche,
Ludus,
Shuggie Otis,
Malaria!,
Juan Atkins,
The Busters,
Pantaleimon,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.