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 Benin and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 organ 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 New Order to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Eric Copeland,
Negative Approach,
Zapp,
Desert Stars,
Minutemen,
Gil Scott Heron,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Todd Rundgren,
CMW,
Roger Hodgson,
Funkadelic,
Rekid,
New Age Steppers,
T.S.O.L.,
Suburban Knight,
Radio Birdman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Franke,
The Sonics,
Radiohead,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
In Retrospect,
Henry Cow,
Archie Shepp,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cluster,
The Electric Prunes,
Matthew Bourne,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Thee Headcoats,
Alton Ellis,
Crash Course in Science,
Sight & Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
David McCallum,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nas,
Outsiders,
The Gories,
FM Einheit,
The Knickerbockers,
Amon Düül,
John Cale,
Gang Starr,
Sixth Finger,
Ken Boothe,
Lyres,
Bad Manners,
Dave Gahan,
Alison Limerick,
Lalann,
Sparks,
Black Moon,
PIL,
Kaleidoscope,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pagans,
The Monks,
Barrington Levy,
Bush Tetras,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.