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 Paraguay and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the 808 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 Babytalk to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
a-ha,
Hashim,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Aswad,
Swans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Terrestrial Tones,
Piero Umiliani,
Grandmaster Flash,
Archie Shepp,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eurythmics,
The Leaves,
Trumans Water,
Supertramp,
New York Dolls,
Hasil Adkins,
Cecil Taylor,
Niagra,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minor Threat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
A Certain Ratio,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sarah Menescal,
Pylon,
The Fortunes,
Bush Tetras,
Quantec,
Charles Mingus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brass Construction,
Q65,
Funkadelic,
Little Man,
Circle Jerks,
Roy Ayers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Slits,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Underground Resistance,
Goldenarms,
Wings,
One Last Wish,
La Düsseldorf,
Graham Central Station,
Gerry Rafferty,
Vladislav Delay,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The New Christs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mo-Dettes,
The Red Krayola,
Eddi Front,
The Buckinghams,
Essential Logic,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Johnny Osbourne,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.