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 Croatia and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 In Retrospect to the crunk 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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Lebanon Hanover,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Organ,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Buzzcocks,
The Tremeloes,
The Misunderstood,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Cure,
Lucky Dragons,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Godley & Creme,
Darondo,
The Fall,
KRS-One,
Piero Umiliani,
Rhythm & Sound,
B.T. Express,
Cal Tjader,
The Trojans,
E-Dancer,
Trumans Water,
Kenny Larkin,
Gang Green,
The Velvet Underground,
Radiopuhelimet,
Don Cherry,
Jerry's Kids,
Lalo Schifrin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Zapp,
Steve Hackett,
Tropical Tobacco,
Stiv Bators,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Divine Comedy,
Marvin Gaye,
Harpers Bizarre,
Neil Young,
The American Breed,
Section 25,
Echospace,
New Age Steppers,
Warren Ellis,
Average White Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Bush Tetras,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mandrill,
Pantaleimon,
Metal Thangz,
Ice-T,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ludus,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gap Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.