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 Barbados and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All R.M.O. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camouflage,
Sparks,
Electric Prunes,
The Mummies,
June of 44,
Pantaleimon,
The Stooges,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Goldenarms,
Fad Gadget,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nation of Ulysses,
Suburban Knight,
Roxette,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Godley & Creme,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Evens,
Television,
Jeff Mills,
June Days,
The Sound,
Popol Vuh,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Soft Cell,
Frankie Knuckles,
Scion,
Anakelly,
T.S.O.L.,
Gang Green,
Monolake,
Kurtis Blow,
Donald Byrd,
Moebius,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Faraquet,
Bob Dylan,
Can,
The Monochrome Set,
Tom Boy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang Gang Dance,
Radiohead,
Davy DMX,
10cc,
Soul Sonic Force,
Prince Buster,
Reuben Wilson,
Barrington Levy,
Sex Pistols,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Trojans,
The Gun Club,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Move,
KRS-One,
Reagan Youth,
Magma,
Laurel Aitken,
The Gories,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.