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 Korea North and from Spokane.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 güiro 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 Gabor Szabo to the grime 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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Fat Boys,
Dual Sessions,
The Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rapeman,
Mary Jane Girls,
Moebius,
Sex Pistols,
The Star Department,
Rotary Connection,
The Blackbyrds,
Monks,
The Gun Club,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Robert Wyatt,
Lee Hazlewood,
Icehouse,
Jeff Lynne,
Angry Samoans,
Eurythmics,
Barbara Tucker,
Kool Moe Dee,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Mantronix,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Magma,
The Evens,
The Index,
New Age Steppers,
The Angels of Light,
Cybotron,
Audionom,
Hashim,
Schoolly D,
The Invisible,
The Standells,
Ponytail,
Traffic Nightmare,
Loose Ends,
The Pop Group,
Japan,
Sarah Menescal,
The Toasters,
E-Dancer,
Avey Tare,
Leonard Cohen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Todd Rundgren,
Electric Prunes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sun City Girls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jacques Brel,
Thompson Twins,
Echospace,
Harry Pussy,
Average White Band,
Todd Terry,
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.