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 Belgium and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 guitar 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 One Last Wish to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
K-Klass,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Boredoms,
The Birthday Party,
Pagans,
Yusef Lateef,
Reagan Youth,
Flipper,
Au Pairs,
Sällskapet,
Das Ding,
Subhumans,
Con Funk Shun,
John Coltrane,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Knickerbockers,
Pulsallama,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Gap Band,
Marc Almond,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Skarface,
The Sound,
Hashim,
Saccharine Trust,
Little Man,
Bronski Beat,
The Five Americans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lalann,
The Black Dice,
Jeff Lynne,
Davy DMX,
Banda Bassotti,
Essential Logic,
The Young Rascals,
The Martian,
Gregory Isaacs,
Maleditus Sound,
Mr. Review,
Piero Umiliani,
The Selecter,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Buzzcocks,
The Flesh Eaters,
Q and Not U,
Nik Kershaw,
Henry Cow,
The Skatalites,
Tomorrow,
Connie Case,
The Happenings,
Pere Ubu,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Curtis Mayfield,
Audionom,
Crash Course in Science,
Porter Ricks,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.