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 Albania and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Minny Pops to the rap 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
T.S.O.L.,
The Angels of Light,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Faust,
Lee Hazlewood,
Agitation Free,
Cybotron,
The Monochrome Set,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pantaleimon,
PIL,
Avey Tare,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scientists,
10cc,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Harpers Bizarre,
Todd Terry,
Schoolly D,
Joensuu 1685,
Delta 5,
Altered Images,
Alison Limerick,
Man Parrish,
Porter Ricks,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Standells,
Ronnie Foster,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Franke,
Minnie Riperton,
The Real Kids,
James White and The Blacks,
Audionom,
Joe Smooth,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Brick,
LL Cool J,
Monks,
Outsiders,
Wolf Eyes,
Mission of Burma,
Jawbox,
Joy Division,
Stereo Dub,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sixth Finger,
Siglo XX,
Infiniti,
Davy DMX,
Crispian St. Peters,
Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Circle Jerks,
Technova,
The Litter,
The Toasters,
Swell Maps,
Ossler,
Fad Gadget,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.