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 Malaysia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 oboe 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 Grauzone to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Motorama,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eli Mardock,
Connie Case,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sound Behaviour,
David Bowie,
Bronski Beat,
Donald Byrd,
Pantytec,
DNA,
MDC,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Radio Birdman,
Zero Boys,
Al Stewart,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gregory Isaacs,
OOIOO,
Chris & Cosey,
48th St. Collective,
Skriet,
Lungfish,
Neil Young,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Walker Brothers,
K-Klass,
The Gladiators,
Vladislav Delay,
Public Enemy,
Ornette Coleman,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Donny Hathaway,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Animal Collective,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Peter & Gordon,
Sonic Youth,
Iggy Pop,
Ronnie Foster,
The Martian,
The Fuzztones,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Technova,
Nick Fraelich,
Neu!,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joyce Sims,
Royal Trux,
LL Cool J,
Pere Ubu,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Vainqueur,
Anakelly,
Bluetip,
Nirvana,
Derrick May,
The Count Five,
Main Source,
Judy Mowatt,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.