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 Algeria and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Lou Reed 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 Zapp to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Junior Murvin,
The Moody Blues,
John Lydon,
Althea and Donna,
Alton Ellis,
Donny Hathaway,
Boredoms,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
E-Dancer,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Names,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Procol Harum,
The Five Americans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Al Stewart,
Dorothy Ashby,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Black Dice,
Robert Görl,
Pantaleimon,
Gichy Dan,
Scratch Acid,
Soul Sonic Force,
Michelle Simonal,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Newcleus,
Fear,
Eric B and Rakim,
Hasil Adkins,
The Associates,
Adolescents,
Sun City Girls,
the Normal,
Toni Rubio,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Searchers,
Harry Pussy,
Bill Near,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rakim,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Neil Young,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Schoolly D,
Jeru the Damaja,
Blossom Toes,
Ossler,
Sister Nancy,
a-ha,
Frankie Knuckles,
Nils Olav,
Wings,
Pylon,
Royal Trux,
Second Layer,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.