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 Palau and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Con Funk Shun to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gabor Szabo,
Mandrill,
Radio Birdman,
The Happenings,
Eric Dolphy,
Popol Vuh,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Trojans,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Motions,
Fear,
Lightning Bolt,
Television,
Trumans Water,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
FM Einheit,
The Dave Clark Five,
Erykah Badu,
X-Ray Spex,
Joyce Sims,
Deadbeat,
Saccharine Trust,
Rosa Yemen,
The Detroit Cobras,
Frankie Knuckles,
R.M.O.,
a-ha,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tomorrow,
Visage,
The Angels of Light,
Pole,
Janne Schatter,
the Germs,
These Immortal Souls,
This Heat,
Infiniti,
The Dirtbombs,
Nils Olav,
The Doobie Brothers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Little Man,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobby Sherman,
U.S. Maple,
Organ,
David Bowie,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kas Product,
Drexciya,
Rotary Connection,
The Real Kids,
The Slackers,
Carl Craig,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Cecil Taylor,
Quando Quango,
Tom Boy,
Marcia Griffiths,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.