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 Finland and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sound to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
John Cale,
Altered Images,
The Gladiators,
Matthew Bourne,
Deadbeat,
Japan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
MDC,
Goldenarms,
Roy Ayers,
The Saints,
Davy DMX,
Barbara Tucker,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Outsiders,
Cluster,
Swans,
The Evens,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
L. Decosne,
ABC,
Panda Bear,
The Move,
Trumans Water,
Aural Exciters,
the Swans,
Sex Pistols,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
LL Cool J,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Andrew Hill,
Pylon,
Adolescents,
Minor Threat,
Mary Jane Girls,
cv313,
Sarah Menescal,
MC5,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Technova,
Franke,
Brand Nubian,
Ultra Naté,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Organ,
Bobby Womack,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Man Parrish,
Gang Gang Dance,
Yazoo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joy Division,
Kenny Larkin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Model 500,
Mantronix,
Fad Gadget,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.