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 Bulgaria and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Bush Tetras to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Derrick Morgan,
Isaac Hayes,
Todd Terry,
Skaos,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Morten Harket,
Soft Machine,
Magma,
Livin' Joy,
The Seeds,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Neil Young,
Scientists,
Ten City,
Lakeside,
Joe Smooth,
Rufus Thomas,
The Moleskins,
Duran Duran,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
New York Dolls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Hasil Adkins,
The Slits,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eric Dolphy,
Bootsy Collins,
D'Angelo,
Leonard Cohen,
Althea and Donna,
Gabor Szabo,
Soulsonic Force,
The Alarm Clocks,
Iggy Pop,
Rotary Connection,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tommy Roe,
Country Teasers,
James White and The Blacks,
Letta Mbulu,
Underground Resistance,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sällskapet,
the Normal,
The Stooges,
Lindisfarne,
Buzzcocks,
One Last Wish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Theoretical Girls,
Ludus,
Piero Umiliani,
Bauhaus,
Soul II Soul,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.