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 Lebanon and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 dance 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bronski Beat,
Aswad,
Oblivians,
Swans,
Tropical Tobacco,
Charles Mingus,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed,
Derrick Morgan,
Ornette Coleman,
Mad Mike,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tom Boy,
Trumans Water,
Babytalk,
Slave,
Jandek,
Brand Nubian,
The Kinks,
Cybotron,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Crash Course in Science,
Flipper,
The Mojo Men,
The Electric Prunes,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Victims,
Jerry's Kids,
Y Pants,
Traffic Nightmare,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
John Holt,
Ohio Players,
Kool Moe Dee,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Sheep,
Radiopuhelimet,
Agent Orange,
Jawbox,
The Fire Engines,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Cramps,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Stooges,
Carl Craig,
Max Romeo,
In Retrospect,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Don Cherry,
Scan 7,
The Gories,
Quando Quango,
Harmonia,
Marc Almond,
Toni Rubio,
Moby Grape,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.