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 Libya and from Mexico City.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Nils Olav to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Massinfluence,
E-Dancer,
The Martian,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Max Romeo,
June of 44,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gregory Isaacs,
Siglo XX,
Graham Central Station,
Dark Day,
Inner City,
Depeche Mode,
Half Japanese,
Groovy Waters,
Brass Construction,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Moody Blues,
Silicon Teens,
Erykah Badu,
Sparks,
Bush Tetras,
Bluetip,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Johnny Clarke,
The Divine Comedy,
Ken Boothe,
Harpers Bizarre,
Skaos,
Flash Fearless,
Susan Cadogan,
the Sonics,
The Selecter,
Isaac Hayes,
Avey Tare,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Crime,
John Foxx,
Fluxion,
Maurizio,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
B.T. Express,
Kool Moe Dee,
Aswad,
Nils Olav,
The Shadows of Knight,
Arcadia,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cameo,
DJ Style,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sonic Youth,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Section 25,
Donny Hathaway,
Yusef Lateef,
Negative Approach,
Chrome,
Q and Not U,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.