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 Pakistan and from London.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Gories to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Outsiders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stockholm Monsters,
Davy DMX,
June of 44,
T.S.O.L.,
Trumans Water,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Infiniti,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sexual Harrassment,
Faraquet,
The Standells,
Aloha Tigers,
KRS-One,
Arcadia,
Andrew Hill,
Reuben Wilson,
Country Teasers,
Hot Snakes,
Model 500,
Terry Callier,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Camouflage,
The Monks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Negative Approach,
Ice-T,
Aswad,
Amazonics,
JFA,
Jeff Mills,
Bluetip,
The Red Krayola,
B.T. Express,
Cheater Slicks,
The Fugs,
Oneida,
Procol Harum,
Alison Limerick,
The Skatalites,
a-ha,
Motorama,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Von Mondo,
the Sonics,
Donny Hathaway,
Joy Division,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Janne Schatter,
Interpol,
Crash Course in Science,
Sight & Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Agitation Free,
Ornette Coleman,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nico,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.