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 Cambodia and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 EPMD 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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Gang Starr,
Sugar Minott,
The Mighty Diamonds,
JFA,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cal Tjader,
Pagans,
Blancmange,
Blake Baxter,
Bluetip,
Jandek,
Pantaleimon,
Ultra Naté,
Eve St. Jones,
Sun City Girls,
Crooked Eye,
The Trojans,
The Moody Blues,
Pantytec,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ralphi Rosario,
Silicon Teens,
The Selecter,
Iggy Pop,
Gang of Four,
Von Mondo,
Bobby Byrd,
Stockholm Monsters,
Peter & Gordon,
The Saints,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kerri Chandler,
The Angels of Light,
Tropical Tobacco,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Agent Orange,
Absolute Body Control,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Warsaw,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Main Source,
Mandrill,
MC5,
Model 500,
John Foxx,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Misunderstood,
Robert Wyatt,
Panda Bear,
Section 25,
The Mummies,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Unrelated Segments,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lower 48,
Junior Murvin,
Banda Bassotti,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.