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 Cambodia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Youth Brigade to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Ossler 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 grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a E-Dancer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Wally Richardson,
Piero Umiliani,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sight & Sound,
LL Cool J,
Arab on Radar,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Fortunes,
Nation of Ulysses,
New Order,
The Cure,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ultravox,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Maleditus Sound,
DJ Sneak,
Deakin,
Dual Sessions,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Echospace,
The Music Machine,
Public Enemy,
Crash Course in Science,
Trumans Water,
Archie Shepp,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Zeros,
Cecil Taylor,
Terry Callier,
Scan 7,
Freddie Wadling,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Bar-Kays,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wasted Youth,
The Gories,
Outsiders,
The Move,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Mojo Men,
The Durutti Column,
Bluetip,
Lucky Dragons,
Bizarre Inc.,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fat Boys,
Flash Fearless,
Nirvana,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Letta Mbulu,
Moby Grape,
New Age Steppers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Electric Prunes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Alice Coltrane,
Bad Manners,
The Knickerbockers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.