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 Egypt and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Iggy Pop to the funk 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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Laurel Aitken,
Basic Channel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Robert Hood,
Tim Buckley,
The Real Kids,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
La Düsseldorf,
Echospace,
Robert Görl,
Bobby Womack,
Blake Baxter,
Peter and Kerry,
Rhythm & Sound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Los Fastidios,
Erykah Badu,
DNA,
Sonny Sharrock,
Goldenarms,
Audionom,
The Cowsills,
David McCallum,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joe Smooth,
The Vogues,
Funky Four + One,
E-Dancer,
Easy Going,
Yaz,
Theoretical Girls,
Davy DMX,
Nico,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Angry Samoans,
Ultra Naté,
X-101,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Cal Tjader,
Thompson Twins,
The Barracudas,
Scientists,
Hasil Adkins,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pantaleimon,
JFA,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Electric Prunes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Association,
Chrome,
Urselle,
Sun Ra,
The Music Machine,
T. Rex,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rufus Thomas,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.