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 Senegal and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the disco 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Dennis Brown,
Sun Ra,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Outsiders,
Nils Olav,
Black Pus,
Moby Grape,
Michelle Simonal,
Excepter,
Second Layer,
The Beau Brummels,
Joe Smooth,
Oneida,
Minutemen,
Janne Schatter,
The Knickerbockers,
Funky Four + One,
Tropical Tobacco,
June of 44,
Ken Boothe,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Half Japanese,
R.M.O.,
Fatback Band,
Soul II Soul,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Television Personalities,
The Raincoats,
Von Mondo,
Dawn Penn,
Clear Light,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Vladislav Delay,
The Doobie Brothers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Radiohead,
Liliput,
Joyce Sims,
Chris Corsano,
John Lydon,
Todd Terry,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Soft Machine,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ossler,
Scrapy,
The Slackers,
Amon Düül II,
Grey Daturas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Arcadia,
The Residents,
Harpers Bizarre,
UT,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Andrew Hill,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.