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 Lithuania and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb 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 Popol Vuh to the crunk 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
Fluxion,
Symarip,
Roy Ayers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Blossom Toes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Doobie Brothers,
UT,
Kas Product,
Warsaw,
Jesper Dahlback,
Smog,
Alton Ellis,
Hoover,
Public Image Ltd.,
Talk Talk,
Gang Green,
Isaac Hayes,
Aural Exciters,
Chris & Cosey,
New Age Steppers,
David Bowie,
Stereo Dub,
Letta Mbulu,
The American Breed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Metal Thangz,
Amon Düül,
Arcadia,
The Cramps,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sister Nancy,
Johnny Clarke,
Freddie Wadling,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Fall,
the Germs,
Piero Umiliani,
The Kinks,
Sandy B,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Khruangbin,
Monolake,
Slave,
Hashim,
Scratch Acid,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mo-Dettes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Angry Samoans,
The Cure,
These Immortal Souls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Graham Central Station,
B.T. Express,
Rod Modell,
Thee Headcoats,
Franke,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.