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 Uganda and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Columbus.
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 spring reverb 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 Japan to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Isaac Hayes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Barrington Levy,
Hardrive,
Harmonia,
Average White Band,
Sixth Finger,
Susan Cadogan,
H. Thieme,
The Human League,
Smog,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Interpol,
Au Pairs,
The Kinks,
The Fortunes,
Arcadia,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang of Four,
The Music Machine,
Monolake,
Boogie Down Productions,
Brick,
K-Klass,
Minny Pops,
Fugazi,
the Association,
June Days,
Ornette Coleman,
Soul Sonic Force,
Colin Newman,
Ronnie Foster,
Alphaville,
Maurizio,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bad Manners,
New Order,
Warsaw,
Erasure,
Skarface,
Lalo Schifrin,
Iggy Pop,
the Swans,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Shuggie Otis,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The American Breed,
Audionom,
Kerri Chandler,
Gabor Szabo,
Joensuu 1685,
James White and The Blacks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Slackers,
Cecil Taylor,
Vainqueur,
Eve St. Jones,
Gastr Del Sol,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Joyce Sims,
Todd Terry,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.