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 Jordan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Holger Czukay 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 Deakin to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover 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 an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bob Dylan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Maurizio,
Smog,
Godley & Creme,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Soft Cell,
D'Angelo,
Silicon Teens,
Basic Channel,
10cc,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Procol Harum,
Moby Grape,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Stereo Dub,
The Residents,
Accadde A,
The Modern Lovers,
The Blackbyrds,
John Cale,
Pierre Henry,
The Birthday Party,
Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Throbbing Gristle,
Amazonics,
Roger Hodgson,
Brothers Johnson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Cramps,
John Foxx,
Cluster,
Goldenarms,
Spoonie Gee,
Public Enemy,
Davy DMX,
Grauzone,
Crash Course in Science,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jesper Dahlback,
Grey Daturas,
Yaz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jeff Lynne,
Inner City,
Sound Behaviour,
Camouflage,
the Sonics,
A Certain Ratio,
Amon Düül,
Scott Walker,
The Tremeloes,
Loose Ends,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mars,
Bluetip,
Jacob Miller,
Radio Birdman,
The Invisible,
Royal Trux,
Sight & Sound,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.