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 Ukraine and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar 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 Bobby Womack to the jazz 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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
The J.B.'s,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Arthur Verocai,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Move,
Marvin Gaye,
Young Marble Giants,
Scientists,
The Slackers,
Lou Reed,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Television,
The Gladiators,
A Certain Ratio,
Basic Channel,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Underground Resistance,
The United States of America,
Bootsy Collins,
Nico,
Hot Snakes,
The Techniques,
Soulsonic Force,
The Trojans,
Cluster,
Jerry's Kids,
Icehouse,
Bobby Sherman,
The Music Machine,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Vogues,
Gang Starr,
Second Layer,
June Days,
The Electric Prunes,
the Fania All-Stars,
Banda Bassotti,
Sam Rivers,
The Gap Band,
The Barracudas,
Pere Ubu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
kango's stein massive,
Toni Rubio,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Todd Terry,
Nick Fraelich,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Donald Byrd,
Glenn Branca,
Unwound,
Ultravox,
Cecil Taylor,
Jeff Lynne,
MC5,
Brand Nubian,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Goldenarms,
Bizarre Inc.,
Massinfluence,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.