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 Belize and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Blackbyrds to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '70s 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 Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Matthew Bourne,
John Cale,
Von Mondo,
Guru Guru,
Khruangbin,
Marc Almond,
John Coltrane,
Warren Ellis,
Kas Product,
The Angels of Light,
Glambeats Corp.,
DJ Style,
The Barracudas,
Main Source,
K-Klass,
The Walker Brothers,
Cal Tjader,
F. McDonald,
Archie Shepp,
Skarface,
Joy Division,
Roxette,
The Remains,
The Moleskins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Boz Scaggs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Absolute Body Control,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Swell Maps,
Funkadelic,
Mantronix,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Alison Limerick,
the Sonics,
LL Cool J,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Howard Jones,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Gladiators,
Byron Stingily,
Schoolly D,
Eden Ahbez,
Whodini,
Connie Case,
Q65,
Camouflage,
Rapeman,
Bob Dylan,
Leonard Cohen,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Albert Ayler,
Inner City,
DNA,
Minutemen,
Pantytec,
Outsiders,
Au Pairs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.