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 Gabon and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the marimba 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 The J.B.'s to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Tom Boy,
Audionom,
Aloha Tigers,
Wasted Youth,
Juan Atkins,
cv313,
The Cramps,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grandmaster Flash,
Cybotron,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Joey Negro,
The Kinks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Donald Byrd,
Faust,
The Fire Engines,
Wire,
Aural Exciters,
Jerry's Kids,
Kas Product,
Hashim,
The Vogues,
Joyce Sims,
Ultra Naté,
Albert Ayler,
the Soft Cell,
In Retrospect,
Mandrill,
Grey Daturas,
Theoretical Girls,
Minny Pops,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxette,
Los Fastidios,
The Residents,
AZ,
Robert Görl,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sun City Girls,
E-Dancer,
MDC,
Circle Jerks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marshall Jefferson,
Flipper,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Raincoats,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camberwell Now,
Oblivians,
Boogie Down Productions,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.