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 Bolivia and from Madrid.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare 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 John Coltrane to the rap 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Soft Machine,
Rod Modell,
The Sonics,
Warsaw,
The Gories,
The Sound,
Joy Division,
Scion,
Hot Snakes,
A Certain Ratio,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grandmaster Flash,
Porter Ricks,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Wake,
Cecil Taylor,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gichy Dan,
Slave,
Ituana,
The Birthday Party,
Morten Harket,
Depeche Mode,
the Sonics,
Soul II Soul,
Aaron Thompson,
Minor Threat,
Bauhaus,
The Cowsills,
The Doobie Brothers,
Hashim,
Television Personalities,
Moby Grape,
Magazine,
The Index,
Sister Nancy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pulsallama,
Funky Four + One,
The Walker Brothers,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Mojo Men,
The Litter,
Gong,
JFA,
Oblivians,
The Doors,
Mo-Dettes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Little Man,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Excepter,
The Trojans,
Idris Muhammad,
Janne Schatter,
Fela Kuti,
The Human League,
Jeff Mills,
Roxy Music,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fluxion,
Marvin Gaye,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.