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 Sweden and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Pierre Henry to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Prince Buster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gories,
This Heat,
Carl Craig,
Animal Collective,
Wire,
Nico,
Connie Case,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Marmalade,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joy Division,
The Gap Band,
Qualms,
Guru Guru,
The Angels of Light,
Matthew Bourne,
Sandy B,
Rotary Connection,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Alison Limerick,
the Swans,
The Stooges,
The Shadows of Knight,
Stereo Dub,
The Cure,
H. Thieme,
The Gun Club,
Pylon,
Section 25,
Con Funk Shun,
Circle Jerks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Procol Harum,
Marvin Gaye,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Althea and Donna,
Glenn Branca,
Roger Hodgson,
Clear Light,
The Smoke,
Lungfish,
Agent Orange,
John Cale,
Judy Mowatt,
The Kinks,
Scratch Acid,
Lindisfarne,
Suicide,
Babytalk,
E-Dancer,
Glambeats Corp.,
Todd Rundgren,
Pierre Henry,
Maurizio,
The J.B.'s,
Unwound,
Mr. Review,
Infiniti,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.