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 Hungary and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the techno 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bob Dylan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Gap Band,
Matthew Halsall,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Invisible,
the Fania All-Stars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cheater Slicks,
Ossler,
Mo-Dettes,
UT,
Tears for Fears,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Quadrant,
Average White Band,
Rotary Connection,
FM Einheit,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Golliwogs,
Television,
Glenn Branca,
Drexciya,
Judy Mowatt,
The Names,
Half Japanese,
Tomorrow,
Dorothy Ashby,
Model 500,
Blake Baxter,
The Fugs,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ultimate Spinach,
Television Personalities,
Negative Approach,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Girls At Our Best!,
Traffic Nightmare,
Albert Ayler,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Anakelly,
DNA,
Stiv Bators,
Harmonia,
Soft Cell,
Dark Day,
Sarah Menescal,
Carl Craig,
June of 44,
Von Mondo,
The Monochrome Set,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nik Kershaw,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sparks,
The Birthday Party,
Cluster,
Amon Düül,
Con Funk Shun,
KRS-One,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.