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 Latvia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 harpsichord 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 Brand Nubian to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Busters. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Flag,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sight & Sound,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Funkadelic,
Janne Schatter,
Newcleus,
Suburban Knight,
Fad Gadget,
B.T. Express,
Colin Newman,
The Offenders,
K-Klass,
Neu!,
Animal Collective,
Laurel Aitken,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Tim Buckley,
The Zeros,
Charles Mingus,
Jandek,
Amazonics,
The Cure,
Suicide,
David Bowie,
Camberwell Now,
Q and Not U,
Lungfish,
Grandmaster Flash,
Motorama,
Yellowson,
Cymande,
Todd Terry,
the Swans,
The Move,
World's Most,
Tom Boy,
The Martian,
Average White Band,
Swell Maps,
The Techniques,
Lalo Schifrin,
Negative Approach,
Joyce Sims,
The Sound,
Dave Gahan,
Yaz,
Rakim,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bobby Womack,
Cybotron,
Ohio Players,
Desert Stars,
Khruangbin,
The Wake,
Bluetip,
June Days,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.