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 Sri Lanka and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Leaves to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
This Heat,
Scan 7,
The Techniques,
The Litter,
Grandmaster Flash,
AZ,
Minnie Riperton,
Barbara Tucker,
Nas,
The Zeros,
The Dirtbombs,
Oneida,
The Saints,
The New Christs,
The Seeds,
Heaven 17,
Gang Green,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
H. Thieme,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ice-T,
Icehouse,
Inner City,
Yaz,
Faust,
Little Man,
Althea and Donna,
Sight & Sound,
Moebius,
Ornette Coleman,
Echospace,
Robert Hood,
Stiv Bators,
The Misunderstood,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Royal Trux,
One Last Wish,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Motorama,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Cowsills,
Delta 5,
Schoolly D,
Wolf Eyes,
The Divine Comedy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Country Teasers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Selecter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Grey Daturas,
Kas Product,
Lightning Bolt,
The Gladiators,
Reagan Youth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.