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 Korea North and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lille.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Josef K to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Prince Buster,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dual Sessions,
Tom Boy,
Pussy Galore,
Average White Band,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Aloha Tigers,
Outsiders,
R.M.O.,
Magma,
Accadde A,
Cymande,
David Bowie,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Seeds,
This Heat,
The Busters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
June Days,
The Gladiators,
Quando Quango,
Easy Going,
Sonic Youth,
Carl Craig,
Deakin,
The Trojans,
Charles Mingus,
Lindisfarne,
Colin Newman,
Goldenarms,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sight & Sound,
Quadrant,
Grauzone,
Supertramp,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Drexciya,
Terry Callier,
Gichy Dan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Roxette,
Lalo Schifrin,
Stereo Dub,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Radio Birdman,
Panda Bear,
Nico,
The Index,
Jeru the Damaja,
48th St. Collective,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Morten Harket,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Parry Music,
D'Angelo,
Second Layer,
Jacob Miller,
Bill Wells,
Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen.
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.