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 Dominica and from Lyon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Little Man to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Scan 7,
Warren Ellis,
a-ha,
the Bar-Kays,
Intrusion,
Soul II Soul,
Rakim,
Scratch Acid,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sonics,
Sugar Minott,
X-101,
Blancmange,
Joey Negro,
Tubeway Army,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gang Starr,
the Fania All-Stars,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lou Christie,
Fear,
David Bowie,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Motorama,
Scott Walker,
Jacob Miller,
Hoover,
the Human League,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Evens,
The Grass Roots,
In Retrospect,
The Cure,
Minny Pops,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Absolute Body Control,
U.S. Maple,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Sonics,
Pulsallama,
DJ Style,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Archie Shepp,
Slick Rick,
Minnie Riperton,
The Toasters,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pharoah Sanders,
Hardrive,
Jeff Lynne,
Mandrill,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Amon Düül,
Rekid,
Marcia Griffiths,
Porter Ricks,
Bill Wells,
New Age Steppers,
Brand Nubian,
Au Pairs,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.