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 Djibouti and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba 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 Agitation Free to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Country Joe & The Fish. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Five Americans,
Khruangbin,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Royal Trux,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Underground Resistance,
Animal Collective,
Jawbox,
Glenn Branca,
Electric Prunes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Michelle Simonal,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Bananas,
the Human League,
The Red Krayola,
Duran Duran,
Funkadelic,
Soul II Soul,
Country Teasers,
Steve Hackett,
Harmonia,
Sun City Girls,
Neu!,
Wolf Eyes,
The Human League,
Frankie Knuckles,
Liliput,
Leonard Cohen,
Rites of Spring,
Bronski Beat,
Arcadia,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New York Dolls,
Hot Snakes,
Anakelly,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Blossom Toes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Litter,
The Leaves,
Bob Dylan,
Main Source,
The Cowsills,
Bauhaus,
The Dead C,
Y Pants,
X-Ray Spex,
Eric B and Rakim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Juan Atkins,
Jacob Miller,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
These Immortal Souls,
Fat Boys,
Tres Demented,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Shuggie Otis,
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