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 Bulgaria and from Manchester.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 clarinet 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 Kool Moe Dee to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Alton Ellis,
Masters at Work,
The Dave Clark Five,
Funkadelic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mantronix,
In Retrospect,
Pantaleimon,
X-102,
The Vogues,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Dirtbombs,
Ultra Naté,
The Searchers,
Scion,
Lucky Dragons,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cameo,
Piero Umiliani,
Cal Tjader,
UT,
Simply Red,
Ronnie Foster,
Massinfluence,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scrapy,
Brand Nubian,
Drexciya,
Chris & Cosey,
Bobby Byrd,
Rapeman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Panda Bear,
Sparks,
Kerri Chandler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
FM Einheit,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Main Source,
Guru Guru,
Organ,
Marmalade,
Malaria!,
A Certain Ratio,
John Cale,
The Moleskins,
Glenn Branca,
Anthony Braxton,
Basic Channel,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Arthur Verocai,
The Buckinghams,
F. McDonald,
The Five Americans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Wake,
The Music Machine,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.