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 Japan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Tokyo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum 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 Audionom to the rap 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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids 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?
Banda Bassotti,
Fela Kuti,
Joyce Sims,
Absolute Body Control,
Charles Mingus,
Desert Stars,
Stiv Bators,
Marvin Gaye,
The Fall,
KRS-One,
Eric Copeland,
The Victims,
Anthony Braxton,
Reagan Youth,
Sandy B,
Mantronix,
In Retrospect,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Byron Stingily,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Section 25,
cv313,
R.M.O.,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pierre Henry,
Groovy Waters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Kaleidoscope,
Hasil Adkins,
Bluetip,
June of 44,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Brand Nubian,
Roxette,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Moby Grape,
DJ Sneak,
Stockholm Monsters,
Agent Orange,
the Fania All-Stars,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Vogues,
Eurythmics,
Kurtis Blow,
Dennis Brown,
Depeche Mode,
10cc,
Theoretical Girls,
the Normal,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Scott Walker,
Eli Mardock,
Terrestrial Tones,
Von Mondo,
Bobby Sherman,
Lower 48,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cheater Slicks,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.