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 Senegal and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Nirvana to the crunk 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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Flipper,
Boz Scaggs,
The Music Machine,
Bill Wells,
Danielle Patucci,
Glenn Branca,
The Moody Blues,
Sugar Minott,
The Black Dice,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fuzztones,
This Heat,
Davy DMX,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lalo Schifrin,
Model 500,
Man Parrish,
Excepter,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Minny Pops,
Sarah Menescal,
Newcleus,
Dorothy Ashby,
Dark Day,
H. Thieme,
Crash Course in Science,
Qualms,
Cymande,
The Gories,
Josef K,
The Count Five,
Royal Trux,
Ice-T,
The Searchers,
Franke,
Soft Machine,
Robert Hood,
Nils Olav,
Heaven 17,
Juan Atkins,
Echospace,
the Slits,
Jeff Mills,
Thee Headcoats,
The Invisible,
Ultimate Spinach,
Gichy Dan,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
E-Dancer,
Infiniti,
cv313,
Japan,
Second Layer,
Siglo XX,
Brand Nubian,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Chrome,
a-ha,
The Saints,
Altered Images,
Cheater Slicks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.