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 Belarus and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pylon to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan 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?
Rhythm & Sound,
FM Einheit,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hashim,
Man Eating Sloth,
Flash Fearless,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Monks,
Johnny Osbourne,
The American Breed,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Radiopuhelimet,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Grey Daturas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tres Demented,
John Holt,
These Immortal Souls,
The Martian,
The Walker Brothers,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Monochrome Set,
Fatback Band,
The Buckinghams,
Angry Samoans,
Ken Boothe,
The New Christs,
Sarah Menescal,
Animal Collective,
The Sound,
Davy DMX,
Moby Grape,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bizarre Inc.,
Guru Guru,
Beasts of Bourbon,
New Order,
Hardrive,
Amazonics,
Peter and Kerry,
Minnie Riperton,
Eve St. Jones,
Bobby Byrd,
Soft Machine,
Country Teasers,
David Bowie,
Metal Thangz,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Toasters,
the Sonics,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Electric Prunes,
Peter & Gordon,
Theoretical Girls,
Simply Red,
Cymande,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.