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 Norway and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 La Düsseldorf to the jazz 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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eve St. Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
K-Klass,
Q65,
The Doors,
Donny Hathaway,
Alton Ellis,
Joyce Sims,
Neu!,
L. Decosne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Bar-Kays,
Dorothy Ashby,
Soul Sonic Force,
Godley & Creme,
Hardrive,
Ituana,
Shuggie Otis,
Arcadia,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Visage,
Eve St. Jones,
Moss Icon,
Sandy B,
Deadbeat,
Juan Atkins,
Tres Demented,
The Selecter,
David Bowie,
Joy Division,
Depeche Mode,
Spandau Ballet,
Deakin,
Derrick May,
In Retrospect,
Crash Course in Science,
Mad Mike,
Panda Bear,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Blake Baxter,
Trumans Water,
Technova,
Bob Dylan,
Agitation Free,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kayak,
The Techniques,
Sarah Menescal,
Q and Not U,
Intrusion,
The Fuzztones,
Matthew Bourne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Motorama,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Skatalites,
Leonard Cohen,
DJ Sneak,
Yusef Lateef,
Mission of Burma,
Liliput,
Barclay James Harvest,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.