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 Estonia and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 sitar 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 Scion to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lalann. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rekid,
10cc,
Massinfluence,
Anakelly,
Max Romeo,
Avey Tare,
The Sonics,
Stereo Dub,
Grauzone,
Gichy Dan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Last Poets,
Marmalade,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Organ,
The Slits,
The Gun Club,
Magazine,
Country Teasers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
E-Dancer,
the Germs,
Minutemen,
Funkadelic,
Agitation Free,
The Music Machine,
KRS-One,
Radiohead,
The Busters,
The Gladiators,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Slits,
The Monochrome Set,
The Human League,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Procol Harum,
Faraquet,
Half Japanese,
Loose Ends,
Ponytail,
The Offenders,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scion,
Accadde A,
Alphaville,
Morten Harket,
the Human League,
Newcleus,
The Saints,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Doors,
Robert Görl,
Animal Collective,
Stetsasonic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joyce Sims,
Scan 7,
Reuben Wilson,
Panda Bear,
Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach.
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.