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 Belize and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Charles Mingus to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 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?
Dorothy Ashby,
The Searchers,
LL Cool J,
Kayak,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rhythm & Sound,
Q65,
Cal Tjader,
Soul II Soul,
Livin' Joy,
Brothers Johnson,
Rekid,
the Association,
Maleditus Sound,
Vladislav Delay,
Byron Stingily,
Nils Olav,
The Pop Group,
John Coltrane,
Andrew Hill,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Blancmange,
Joy Division,
Ten City,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Judy Mowatt,
Television,
Connie Case,
Whodini,
The Human League,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Görl,
Mars,
The Smoke,
MC5,
a-ha,
Goldenarms,
Darondo,
Ultravox,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Peter and Kerry,
Chrome,
Hashim,
Surgeon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Real Kids,
Tears for Fears,
Robert Hood,
Newcleus,
Fluxion,
Chris Corsano,
Kurtis Blow,
Fear,
Alton Ellis,
Young Marble Giants,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
CMW,
The Slits, The Slits, The Slits, The Slits.
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.