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 Australia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Brick to the jazz 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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
The Barracudas,
Derrick Morgan,
The Evens,
Zapp,
Drexciya,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nirvana,
Pantytec,
Infiniti,
Essential Logic,
Scratch Acid,
The Mojo Men,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joy Division,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Goldenarms,
Bad Manners,
The Monochrome Set,
The Saints,
The Flesh Eaters,
Skarface,
Kayak,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rotary Connection,
Carl Craig,
Circle Jerks,
Isaac Hayes,
Gabor Szabo,
The Dirtbombs,
Mary Jane Girls,
Metal Thangz,
Gerry Rafferty,
Toni Rubio,
Section 25,
The Slits,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bluetip,
Sam Rivers,
Funkadelic,
The Last Poets,
the Soft Cell,
The Stooges,
Jawbox,
Ten City,
Eurythmics,
Khruangbin,
David Bowie,
Ice-T,
Sixth Finger,
The Shadows of Knight,
Buzzcocks,
Patti Smith,
Arcadia,
Barbara Tucker,
The Blackbyrds,
Pharoah Sanders,
Funky Four + One,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.