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 Slovenia and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Depeche Mode to the jazz 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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Wasted Youth,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jeru the Damaja,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flash Fearless,
Accadde A,
The Human League,
Severed Heads,
Nils Olav,
Mars,
Talk Talk,
Barbara Tucker,
Toni Rubio,
The Knickerbockers,
Ultra Naté,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Pretty Things,
The Gories,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Görl,
Whodini,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Erykah Badu,
Junior Murvin,
Crispy Ambulance,
June of 44,
Unrelated Segments,
Ultimate Spinach,
Robert Hood,
Mo-Dettes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Donny Hathaway,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Agitation Free,
Q and Not U,
Beasts of Bourbon,
DJ Sneak,
Main Source,
Bronski Beat,
Josef K,
China Crisis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yusef Lateef,
Michelle Simonal,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hashim,
Supertramp,
K-Klass,
Donald Byrd,
Roxette,
Mission of Burma,
Skaos,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bush Tetras,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Dual Sessions,
Al Stewart,
DNA, DNA, DNA, DNA.
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.