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 Papua New Guinea and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Soft Machine to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Organ,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Steve Hackett,
Blake Baxter,
Ultravox,
Skaos,
This Heat,
Young Marble Giants,
Slave,
K-Klass,
Deadbeat,
Vainqueur,
David Bowie,
Cheater Slicks,
Nas,
Liliput,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scrapy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Associates,
Amon Düül II,
Pantytec,
Nik Kershaw,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pulsallama,
Stereo Dub,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Adolescents,
Leonard Cohen,
Nils Olav,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Byrd,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lyres,
Heaven 17,
The Busters,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Victims,
Jerry's Kids,
Isaac Hayes,
The Blackbyrds,
Minny Pops,
The Kinks,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Music Machine,
Janne Schatter,
Fatback Band,
David Axelrod,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
kango's stein massive,
Letta Mbulu,
Magma,
Wasted Youth,
Rotary Connection,
Dawn Penn,
Duran Duran,
Shoche,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tim Buckley,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.