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 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Hong Kong.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Flesh Eaters to the jazz 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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Black Flag,
One Last Wish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Boogie Down Productions,
Oblivians,
Warren Ellis,
The Names,
The Black Dice,
The Gap Band,
Motorama,
Bill Near,
Janne Schatter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sister Nancy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sound,
Scion,
X-101,
Severed Heads,
Davy DMX,
Youth Brigade,
The Shadows of Knight,
Robert Görl,
Kaleidoscope,
Alton Ellis,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Talk Talk,
Skaos,
Little Man,
The Blues Magoos,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eric Copeland,
The Grass Roots,
Suburban Knight,
the Normal,
Oneida,
Zapp,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Maurizio,
Quantec,
Surgeon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Deakin,
Black Sheep,
Absolute Body Control,
The Real Kids,
T.S.O.L.,
Cluster,
Buzzcocks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Juan Atkins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Birthday Party,
New York Dolls,
Josef K,
Barry Ungar,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.