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 Germany and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin 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 Faraquet to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Average White Band,
Bauhaus,
Flipper,
David Bowie,
T. Rex,
Terry Callier,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sällskapet,
Drexciya,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Livin' Joy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gang Starr,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Nirvana,
Angry Samoans,
John Foxx,
Jerry's Kids,
Radio Birdman,
Masters at Work,
The Durutti Column,
Absolute Body Control,
The Pop Group,
Roxy Music,
Ossler,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Con Funk Shun,
The Searchers,
Blake Baxter,
Janne Schatter,
The Knickerbockers,
Archie Shepp,
Television,
Bill Wells,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cybotron,
the Swans,
James White and The Blacks,
Crispy Ambulance,
Adolescents,
The Skatalites,
Severed Heads,
Kool Moe Dee,
EPMD,
The Golliwogs,
Wally Richardson,
L. Decosne,
Matthew Bourne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Lydon,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Kinks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.