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 Montenegro and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Marmalade to the crunk 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 Traffic Nightmare. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Anthony Braxton,
Gang Starr,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Sound,
Eden Ahbez,
Jeff Lynne,
Minny Pops,
Surgeon,
Boredoms,
Q and Not U,
UT,
Joey Negro,
Nation of Ulysses,
Nils Olav,
Scientists,
The Buckinghams,
Groovy Waters,
The Litter,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Grass Roots,
Livin' Joy,
Funky Four + One,
Pylon,
Intrusion,
Mission of Burma,
John Holt,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Archie Shepp,
Tomorrow,
New York Dolls,
The Electric Prunes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Agent Orange,
Youth Brigade,
The American Breed,
Ituana,
Cal Tjader,
Swans,
Ohio Players,
Albert Ayler,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Easy Going,
Stetsasonic,
Kas Product,
AZ,
U.S. Maple,
Bronski Beat,
Whodini,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Heaven 17,
The Martian,
Scott Walker,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Star Department,
Stereo Dub,
The Blues Magoos,
The Monochrome Set,
DJ Style,
The Gladiators,
The Divine Comedy,
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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.