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 Liberia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Warren Ellis to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
Faust,
Moss Icon,
David McCallum,
Animal Collective,
Carl Craig,
Mark Hollis,
MC5,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wolf Eyes,
Magma,
Theoretical Girls,
Bobby Womack,
The Gladiators,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Wake,
Cameo,
The Moleskins,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Invisible,
Malaria!,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bob Dylan,
Grey Daturas,
Janne Schatter,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Young Marble Giants,
The Leaves,
The Birthday Party,
John Coltrane,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rakim,
Dave Gahan,
Sandy B,
the Normal,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dennis Brown,
Anakelly,
Groovy Waters,
Tubeway Army,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Flash Fearless,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Electric Prunes,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Bar-Kays,
The Saints,
The Index,
Roger Hodgson,
Danielle Patucci,
The Gap Band,
Mars,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Zero Boys,
The Fuzztones,
Ludus,
The Doobie Brothers,
Television Personalities,
Oblivians,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.