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 Guyana and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer 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 Thee Headcoats to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tropical Tobacco 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cluster,
Slick Rick,
Davy DMX,
Sex Pistols,
The Dirtbombs,
The Fall,
Goldenarms,
Marmalade,
Archie Shepp,
Joe Finger,
Marvin Gaye,
Josef K,
X-102,
James White and The Blacks,
Colin Newman,
The Kinks,
Theoretical Girls,
The Angels of Light,
Funkadelic,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Surgeon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Donny Hathaway,
Urselle,
Country Teasers,
kango's stein massive,
Niagra,
Lalann,
The Blackbyrds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Warsaw,
Kaleidoscope,
Bill Near,
The New Christs,
DNA,
Television Personalities,
Sight & Sound,
Absolute Body Control,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pierre Henry,
Matthew Halsall,
Franke,
Gabor Szabo,
Kas Product,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pantaleimon,
Lungfish,
Jeff Mills,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kayak,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Alphaville,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Modern Lovers,
The Grass Roots,
Quadrant,
UT,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jimmy McGriff,
CMW,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.