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 Liechtenstein and from Cairo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Swell Maps to the grime 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds 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?
Black Flag,
The J.B.'s,
Altered Images,
Suburban Knight,
Dead Boys,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Zero Boys,
Roger Hodgson,
Byron Stingily,
Second Layer,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Leaves,
Yusef Lateef,
Soulsonic Force,
Chris Corsano,
Quadrant,
The Star Department,
Fela Kuti,
Mantronix,
Electric Prunes,
The Pop Group,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dawn Penn,
Michelle Simonal,
Aaron Thompson,
Howard Jones,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marshall Jefferson,
Marine Girls,
cv313,
Eli Mardock,
The Slackers,
Slick Rick,
Amazonics,
Buzzcocks,
the Human League,
Gabor Szabo,
Unrelated Segments,
Brand Nubian,
The New Christs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Model 500,
Spoonie Gee,
Robert Hood,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Five Americans,
Lightning Bolt,
Symarip,
Roxette,
Pole,
Boogie Down Productions,
Reuben Wilson,
John Cale,
The Velvet Underground,
K-Klass,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neu!,
Johnny Osbourne,
Surgeon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Qualms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.