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 Laos and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 David Bowie to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
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,
One Last Wish,
Ohio Players,
The Litter,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lungfish,
Cal Tjader,
The Raincoats,
Pantaleimon,
Scratch Acid,
AZ,
Sarah Menescal,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fluxion,
Nik Kershaw,
Glambeats Corp.,
Infiniti,
Easy Going,
Kerri Chandler,
Shuggie Otis,
The Smoke,
The Count Five,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nick Fraelich,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Niagra,
Massinfluence,
Monolake,
Leonard Cohen,
Gichy Dan,
The Black Dice,
The Slits,
Archie Shepp,
Animal Collective,
Man Parrish,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Man Eating Sloth,
Blake Baxter,
The Invisible,
Ronan,
Public Enemy,
Lightning Bolt,
Ossler,
Accadde A,
Cluster,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dennis Brown,
Saccharine Trust,
Soft Machine,
Chris Corsano,
Magazine,
Albert Ayler,
Section 25,
The American Breed,
Lindisfarne,
Chris & Cosey,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roxette,
Kenny Larkin,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.