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 Estonia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
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 Junior Murvin to the funk 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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
DNA,
The Pop Group,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Junior Murvin,
Brothers Johnson,
The Moleskins,
The Wake,
kango's stein massive,
John Foxx,
Eurythmics,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Marmalade,
The Velvet Underground,
Pharoah Sanders,
Scott Walker,
Cheater Slicks,
Lee Hazlewood,
Audionom,
Matthew Bourne,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rosa Yemen,
Maurizio,
Simply Red,
Rakim,
Lightning Bolt,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
June Days,
Pulsallama,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bobby Byrd,
Eric Copeland,
Fluxion,
the Bar-Kays,
Rhythm & Sound,
Desert Stars,
David McCallum,
Aural Exciters,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Busters,
Yaz,
the Human League,
Supertramp,
The Dead C,
T. Rex,
Outsiders,
The Invisible,
Soul II Soul,
Bill Wells,
Index,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pierre Henry,
The Music Machine,
Stetsasonic,
the Sonics,
EPMD,
Lou Reed,
The Martian,
Newcleus,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.