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 Guinea and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 chamberlin 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 CMW to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Marvin Gaye. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
a-ha,
Excepter,
Ice-T,
Unwound,
Oneida,
Aural Exciters,
Soft Cell,
the Association,
Lou Reed,
Eli Mardock,
Rotary Connection,
Ossler,
Isaac Hayes,
New Age Steppers,
Lakeside,
Connie Case,
Kool Moe Dee,
Au Pairs,
Heaven 17,
Buzzcocks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tom Boy,
Agent Orange,
Camouflage,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sonic Youth,
Jacob Miller,
Fatback Band,
Henry Cow,
Juan Atkins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jimmy McGriff,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joey Negro,
David Bowie,
The Last Poets,
This Heat,
X-Ray Spex,
David Axelrod,
The Moody Blues,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
MDC,
Nas,
Thee Headcoats,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Shoche,
Deepchord,
Erykah Badu,
Rekid,
Electric Prunes,
Jeff Lynne,
Ronan,
Visage,
Pantytec,
The Doors,
Sight & Sound,
Von Mondo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Matthew Bourne,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.