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 Madagascar and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Excepter 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 The Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Clear Light,
DJ Sneak,
Pagans,
Jawbox,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Silicon Teens,
Rotary Connection,
Siglo XX,
Nas,
Scratch Acid,
Underground Resistance,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stockholm Monsters,
Erykah Badu,
Joe Finger,
The Count Five,
Bauhaus,
Nico,
The Residents,
Maleditus Sound,
Yazoo,
The Remains,
Mary Jane Girls,
Banda Bassotti,
Arab on Radar,
China Crisis,
Q and Not U,
Harry Pussy,
Newcleus,
Slave,
Fad Gadget,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Cramps,
Minor Threat,
The Trojans,
The Divine Comedy,
Jerry's Kids,
Brand Nubian,
The Monks,
Crooked Eye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Spoonie Gee,
Dark Day,
Bluetip,
Lee Hazlewood,
Heaven 17,
The Gories,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Soulsonic Force,
A Certain Ratio,
Robert Hood,
Public Enemy,
Duran Duran,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Matthew Bourne,
Black Pus,
David McCallum,
Peter & Gordon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.