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 Iraq and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mexico City.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Wings 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Slick Rick,
La Düsseldorf,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yazoo,
The Seeds,
Darondo,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Hood,
the Human League,
Delon & Dalcan,
Second Layer,
The Star Department,
The Sound,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Fall,
Bobby Sherman,
Liliput,
Pylon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jesper Dahlback,
Shoche,
Thompson Twins,
Massinfluence,
Section 25,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Bananas,
cv313,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kaleidoscope,
Oblivians,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Leonard Cohen,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Deakin,
Neu!,
Zero Boys,
Lower 48,
The Pretty Things,
Scratch Acid,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scott Walker,
Drive Like Jehu,
EPMD,
Gerry Rafferty,
Scion,
Kayak,
Sex Pistols,
Boogie Down Productions,
Brick,
Eden Ahbez,
Andrew Hill,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Minutemen,
Saccharine Trust,
Lebanon Hanover,
Essential Logic,
This Heat,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Alphaville,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.