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 China and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Cecil Taylor to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ossler,
Junior Murvin,
Aural Exciters,
Fat Boys,
Minor Threat,
Minutemen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Music Machine,
Wolf Eyes,
Ludus,
A Certain Ratio,
Cymande,
Janne Schatter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nas,
Erykah Badu,
Pet Shop Boys,
Infiniti,
The Misunderstood,
Lightning Bolt,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Quadrant,
Pharoah Sanders,
Tomorrow,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pantytec,
Aloha Tigers,
PIL,
The Walker Brothers,
Dead Boys,
Sight & Sound,
Angry Samoans,
Yaz,
Japan,
Kaleidoscope,
Archie Shepp,
Deakin,
Funky Four + One,
Fad Gadget,
Spoonie Gee,
The Gories,
The Stooges,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Wire,
Lucky Dragons,
Lindisfarne,
Yusef Lateef,
Sister Nancy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Excepter,
Main Source,
Suicide,
LL Cool J,
Porter Ricks,
Brothers Johnson,
Blake Baxter,
The Wake,
the Human League,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.