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 Peru and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Sixth Finger to the techno 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 The Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Cal Tjader,
The Dave Clark Five,
Unrelated Segments,
Ralphi Rosario,
Suicide,
Kayak,
The Modern Lovers,
Desert Stars,
The Skatalites,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Joe Smooth,
Dorothy Ashby,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Amazonics,
Minor Threat,
Hot Snakes,
Joyce Sims,
Yusef Lateef,
Danielle Patucci,
Peter & Gordon,
Mad Mike,
Alphaville,
Ultravox,
Flipper,
Sarah Menescal,
The Neon Judgement,
Warren Ellis,
Make Up,
Shoche,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jawbox,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dual Sessions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Goldenarms,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lightning Bolt,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ten City,
Half Japanese,
Lalann,
The Remains,
Althea and Donna,
Tomorrow,
Section 25,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sun Ra,
Todd Terry,
Derrick Morgan,
The Wake,
Deadbeat,
Soul II Soul,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Slave,
Zapp,
R.M.O.,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.