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 El Salvador 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Slave to the electroclash 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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Matthew Bourne,
Warren Ellis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Animal Collective,
The Fire Engines,
The Fuzztones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fatback Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Swans,
Danielle Patucci,
Cheater Slicks,
Charles Mingus,
Faust,
Swell Maps,
Cecil Taylor,
Absolute Body Control,
Schoolly D,
Bauhaus,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gong,
Camberwell Now,
Scrapy,
Zapp,
Unwound,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
La Düsseldorf,
Lou Christie,
In Retrospect,
the Fania All-Stars,
Slick Rick,
Panda Bear,
Soul Sonic Force,
T. Rex,
Goldenarms,
The Young Rascals,
The Doors,
Anakelly,
Lakeside,
The Selecter,
Pantaleimon,
Idris Muhammad,
Rufus Thomas,
PIL,
Marvin Gaye,
The Sonics,
Quadrant,
The Residents,
Infiniti,
Neu!,
Mantronix,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ronan,
Bobby Sherman,
U.S. Maple,
Shoche,
Parry Music,
Essential Logic,
John Lydon,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.