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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
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 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
Funky Four + One,
Black Sheep,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Seeds,
Alton Ellis,
Eden Ahbez,
Wire,
Radiohead,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Grass Roots,
The Trojans,
Joe Smooth,
Nico,
Brass Construction,
Sight & Sound,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gories,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Divine Comedy,
Schoolly D,
Lungfish,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Youth Brigade,
Wolf Eyes,
Eli Mardock,
Erykah Badu,
Quando Quango,
Maurizio,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bill Wells,
James White and The Blacks,
Henry Cow,
DJ Style,
Thompson Twins,
Alphaville,
Bang On A Can,
Bill Near,
the Fania All-Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Techniques,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Harpers Bizarre,
10cc,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Can,
Freddie Wadling,
Crispy Ambulance,
Infiniti,
F. McDonald,
Neu!,
DNA,
Animal Collective,
Jeff Lynne,
Unrelated Segments,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tim Buckley,
Excepter,
Albert Ayler,
Prince Buster,
A Certain Ratio,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.