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 Algeria and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 harpsichord 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 The Mummies to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Hardrive,
Main Source,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Kinks,
Reuben Wilson,
The Birthday Party,
Maurizio,
Dawn Penn,
Steve Hackett,
Soulsonic Force,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Robert Görl,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aaron Thompson,
Magma,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Velvet Underground,
Slave,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joyce Sims,
Q65,
Make Up,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ronan,
Nils Olav,
Cymande,
Moby Grape,
The Vogues,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
June of 44,
The Mummies,
Boogie Down Productions,
Erykah Badu,
Ludus,
LL Cool J,
Newcleus,
Zero Boys,
The Wake,
Agent Orange,
Liliput,
Blake Baxter,
Jandek,
the Germs,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Faust,
Y Pants,
The Stooges,
Traffic Nightmare,
Juan Atkins,
Alton Ellis,
Niagra,
Skriet,
DNA,
cv313,
Brand Nubian,
The Gories,
EPMD,
Aural Exciters,
OOIOO,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.