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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 marimba 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 Jimmy McGriff to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Charles Mingus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Tubeway Army,
The Real Kids,
The Fortunes,
Ponytail,
Wolf Eyes,
Wally Richardson,
Sun Ra,
Cecil Taylor,
Main Source,
Jeff Mills,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
AZ,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Flamin' Groovies,
Blake Baxter,
Urselle,
Monks,
T. Rex,
Kenny Larkin,
Neil Young,
Graham Central Station,
David McCallum,
Yellowson,
Accadde A,
The Slits,
ABC,
The Knickerbockers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Section 25,
Josef K,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Max Romeo,
Bootsy Collins,
The Gun Club,
The Doors,
Lalo Schifrin,
Hoover,
Dual Sessions,
Freddie Wadling,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Human League,
Pagans,
MC5,
Bang On A Can,
Glenn Branca,
Todd Terry,
Leonard Cohen,
cv313,
F. McDonald,
Jawbox,
Subhumans,
Fela Kuti,
The Electric Prunes,
Buzzcocks,
Camouflage,
Mandrill,
New Age Steppers,
Swans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eddi Front,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.