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 Swaziland and from Columbus.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 linndrum 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Collins. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kas Product,
Panda Bear,
the Soft Cell,
CMW,
Ultra Naté,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bauhaus,
Kurtis Blow,
Lakeside,
Television Personalities,
Wire,
Hasil Adkins,
The Dead C,
Fela Kuti,
Von Mondo,
Pole,
Lalann,
Swans,
Metal Thangz,
Donald Byrd,
Cymande,
Zapp,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Stetsasonic,
The Seeds,
Soul II Soul,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eve St. Jones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Niagra,
Johnny Osbourne,
Man Eating Sloth,
Mars,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Au Pairs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sexual Harrassment,
F. McDonald,
Bootsy Collins,
Scrapy,
Little Man,
Jeru the Damaja,
Gastr Del Sol,
Roxy Music,
Prince Buster,
Crooked Eye,
Ornette Coleman,
The Happenings,
Faraquet,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Technova,
Danielle Patucci,
Maurizio,
Absolute Body Control,
Isaac Hayes,
H. Thieme,
China Crisis,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Blackbyrds,
Mantronix,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.