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 Portugal and from Milan.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Minny Pops to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum 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?
Max Romeo,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Martian,
Shuggie Otis,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
New Age Steppers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gabor Szabo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pantytec,
Pharoah Sanders,
Maurizio,
Byron Stingily,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
The Misunderstood,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Schoolly D,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kaleidoscope,
The Invisible,
Fela Kuti,
Dave Gahan,
Matthew Halsall,
Al Stewart,
Aloha Tigers,
Scott Walker,
The Selecter,
Sex Pistols,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Con Funk Shun,
Lalo Schifrin,
OOIOO,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Wolf Eyes,
Susan Cadogan,
The Mummies,
Anakelly,
Amon Düül II,
Franke,
The Raincoats,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jawbox,
Joe Finger,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobby Byrd,
Carl Craig,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Todd Rundgren,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lyres,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
DJ Style,
Gang Green,
The Blackbyrds,
The Dead C,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Hardrive,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.