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 Mauritania and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Maurizio to the techno 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Dual Sessions,
Roy Ayers,
Derrick Morgan,
The Gories,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Whodini,
The Golliwogs,
Echospace,
Niagra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Arthur Verocai,
Todd Rundgren,
D'Angelo,
Laurel Aitken,
Neil Young,
Essential Logic,
Quantec,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mission of Burma,
The Blackbyrds,
The Sound,
The Gladiators,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
LL Cool J,
Slick Rick,
A Certain Ratio,
Boz Scaggs,
The Wake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Index,
Funkadelic,
Peter & Gordon,
Pantytec,
Circle Jerks,
Eli Mardock,
Intrusion,
Dark Day,
The Angels of Light,
The Martian,
The Dead C,
The Litter,
Average White Band,
The Cowsills,
Saccharine Trust,
Scan 7,
L. Decosne,
Hasil Adkins,
Robert Görl,
Stetsasonic,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
MC5,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eve St. Jones,
Q and Not U,
Soul II Soul,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Slackers,
Ronnie Foster,
Television Personalities,
Ohio Players,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.