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 Czech Republic and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron 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 The Barracudas to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Adolescents,
Jeff Mills,
Scan 7,
Von Mondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Max Romeo,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jimmy McGriff,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sound Behaviour,
Easy Going,
The Vogues,
Soulsonic Force,
the Human League,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Wolf Eyes,
Yazoo,
Warsaw,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Soft Cell,
The Red Krayola,
the Bar-Kays,
Erykah Badu,
Warren Ellis,
Hasil Adkins,
Jacob Miller,
June of 44,
Das Ding,
Mad Mike,
Eli Mardock,
Joe Finger,
Jacques Brel,
Alice Coltrane,
Joey Negro,
Erasure,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mantronix,
Q65,
Outsiders,
Lucky Dragons,
Wings,
Mr. Review,
Livin' Joy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fluxion,
Stiv Bators,
Cecil Taylor,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Tremeloes,
The Happenings,
Fear,
Metal Thangz,
Angry Samoans,
D'Angelo,
The Saints,
the Association,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nas,
Anakelly,
The Star Department,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.