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 Israel and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Captain Beefheart 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 The Move to the disco 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 Altered Images. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
These Immortal Souls,
Public Enemy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Blossom Toes,
Loose Ends,
The Litter,
Neu!,
CMW,
Peter & Gordon,
Motorama,
The Busters,
Pharoah Sanders,
UT,
Vladislav Delay,
The Victims,
Shuggie Otis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joe Smooth,
Bill Near,
Panda Bear,
Idris Muhammad,
Robert Görl,
Barclay James Harvest,
a-ha,
Gil Scott Heron,
Erasure,
Pantaleimon,
Surgeon,
Erykah Badu,
Gichy Dan,
Los Fastidios,
Q65,
X-102,
Eddi Front,
Black Moon,
The Golliwogs,
The Five Americans,
LL Cool J,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Cure,
Tommy Roe,
10cc,
ABBA,
Bobby Womack,
Leonard Cohen,
The Durutti Column,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pole,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dual Sessions,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Sonics,
Black Pus,
KRS-One,
The Barracudas,
The Kinks,
Cybotron,
Pere Ubu,
Mars,
Tubeway Army,
The Seeds,
Cluster,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.