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 Ghana and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Matthew Halsall to the electroclash 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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Metal Thangz,
EPMD,
Kurtis Blow,
Animal Collective,
Nas,
Man Eating Sloth,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wasted Youth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ultimate Spinach,
Yazoo,
The Birthday Party,
Kerri Chandler,
Alphaville,
Derrick May,
Von Mondo,
The Monochrome Set,
Blancmange,
the Human League,
Davy DMX,
Joey Negro,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Gap Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Harry Pussy,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Count Five,
Panda Bear,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Angels of Light,
The Electric Prunes,
10cc,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cheater Slicks,
Sun Ra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Man Parrish,
The Fall,
Deakin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gil Scott Heron,
Moss Icon,
The Leaves,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Anthony Braxton,
OOIOO,
Newcleus,
Eric B and Rakim,
Chris & Cosey,
Throbbing Gristle,
Subhumans,
Mark Hollis,
Television Personalities,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
kango's stein massive,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.