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 Kosovo and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 U.S. Maple to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angry Samoans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Depeche Mode,
Isaac Hayes,
Joey Negro,
Eddi Front,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Scion,
Rekid,
Lalann,
Junior Murvin,
Fear,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Mission of Burma,
Matthew Halsall,
Josef K,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Funkadelic,
Y Pants,
The Pretty Things,
Brass Construction,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The American Breed,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Robert Wyatt,
Soft Cell,
The Buckinghams,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Happenings,
Reuben Wilson,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bob Dylan,
Desert Stars,
Lightning Bolt,
Liliput,
In Retrospect,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sister Nancy,
The Slits,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pagans,
Altered Images,
Blossom Toes,
Eurythmics,
Howard Jones,
New Order,
Ronan,
Yazoo,
Kerri Chandler,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Spoonie Gee,
Khruangbin,
Aaron Thompson,
The Mummies,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.