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 Saudi Arabia and from Columbus.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Anthony Braxton to the grime 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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks 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 synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Raincoats,
Tomorrow,
Minny Pops,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Juan Atkins,
Joe Smooth,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Young Marble Giants,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cheater Slicks,
The Golliwogs,
Ten City,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Simply Red,
New Order,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Excepter,
ABC,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Five Americans,
Urselle,
Yusef Lateef,
D'Angelo,
Nick Fraelich,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Trumans Water,
Suicide,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kayak,
James White and The Blacks,
Radiohead,
Nas,
Warren Ellis,
Aaron Thompson,
Kas Product,
Motorama,
Negative Approach,
Eurythmics,
Deadbeat,
Frankie Knuckles,
Todd Rundgren,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jeff Mills,
Arthur Verocai,
Flipper,
Derrick Morgan,
Ice-T,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Black Sheep,
Stiv Bators,
The Blues Magoos,
The Gun Club,
Fela Kuti,
Brand Nubian,
Patti Smith,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Busters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Metal Thangz,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.