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 Cameroon and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Johannesburg.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kerrie Biddell to the grime 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Crispy Ambulance,
Joey Negro,
Lower 48,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Excepter,
Shuggie Otis,
The Motions,
Isaac Hayes,
the Normal,
The Mummies,
Eli Mardock,
Warsaw,
Hardrive,
Albert Ayler,
Radiohead,
Camberwell Now,
K-Klass,
Fela Kuti,
Agitation Free,
Cheater Slicks,
Scott Walker,
Maurizio,
Pylon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marmalade,
Intrusion,
Tubeway Army,
Matthew Bourne,
Vladislav Delay,
Neil Young,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soul II Soul,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Skarface,
Angry Samoans,
Sun City Girls,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sarah Menescal,
The Grass Roots,
Arcadia,
Stereo Dub,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Janne Schatter,
The Smoke,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Yaz,
Deadbeat,
Max Romeo,
Andrew Hill,
The Martian,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bad Manners,
James White and The Blacks,
Flash Fearless,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nils Olav,
The Black Dice,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pierre Henry,
cv313,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.