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 Suriname and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rotary Connection to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
X-102,
Frankie Knuckles,
Wire,
Soft Cell,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Intrusion,
Groovy Waters,
Infiniti,
Crash Course in Science,
Bluetip,
Thee Headcoats,
Toni Rubio,
Von Mondo,
The Index,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric Copeland,
Easy Going,
Make Up,
Carl Craig,
Ohio Players,
Bill Near,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Names,
Jerry's Kids,
Echospace,
Lalann,
Tropical Tobacco,
X-101,
Marcia Griffiths,
Funky Four + One,
Y Pants,
EPMD,
Main Source,
the Association,
Symarip,
Talk Talk,
Outsiders,
Scan 7,
The Martian,
Half Japanese,
Harmonia,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kurtis Blow,
Arcadia,
Barbara Tucker,
The Last Poets,
Black Pus,
Grandmaster Flash,
John Coltrane,
Banda Bassotti,
Audionom,
Peter and Kerry,
Rekid,
The Real Kids,
Pierre Henry,
Jacob Miller,
Eve St. Jones,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jawbox,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.