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 Italy and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Camberwell Now,
Curtis Mayfield,
Deadbeat,
UT,
CMW,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Drexciya,
Blancmange,
June of 44,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lakeside,
Big Daddy Kane,
Silicon Teens,
48th St. Collective,
Anakelly,
Stiv Bators,
Von Mondo,
Eric Copeland,
Althea and Donna,
The Happenings,
Kayak,
Section 25,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Funky Four + One,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Excepter,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scion,
Swans,
Sixth Finger,
Bauhaus,
Young Marble Giants,
Nico,
Eli Mardock,
Mad Mike,
The Divine Comedy,
Alphaville,
cv313,
The Slits,
Susan Cadogan,
Piero Umiliani,
The Gap Band,
The Techniques,
John Holt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liliput,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Busters,
Pantytec,
Slick Rick,
Thompson Twins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bizarre Inc.,
Minutemen,
Blossom Toes,
R.M.O.,
Sandy B,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.