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 Poland and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 Letta Mbulu to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Leonard Cohen,
China Crisis,
Scan 7,
Lebanon Hanover,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Drexciya,
John Coltrane,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Moleskins,
Talk Talk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bootsy Collins,
Faraquet,
The Fortunes,
Brass Construction,
Von Mondo,
Trumans Water,
The Young Rascals,
Nas,
Cal Tjader,
Qualms,
Dorothy Ashby,
Accadde A,
Half Japanese,
Eve St. Jones,
The Monochrome Set,
Ronan,
Sixth Finger,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter & Gordon,
PIL,
Al Stewart,
The Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
Avey Tare,
The Standells,
The Moody Blues,
Soulsonic Force,
Iggy Pop,
The Offenders,
Neil Young,
Marmalade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jandek,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
E-Dancer,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Slits,
The Vogues,
Altered Images,
Basic Channel,
The Smoke,
Juan Atkins,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camouflage,
Smog,
Dead Boys,
Fad Gadget,
Pulsallama,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bobby Byrd,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.