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 France and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Edmonton.
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 oboe 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 The Blackbyrds to the dance 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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Pulsallama,
Warren Ellis,
Ornette Coleman,
The Vogues,
The Fuzztones,
Ten City,
Country Teasers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Wolf Eyes,
cv313,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mary Jane Girls,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Mojo Men,
Tubeway Army,
Adolescents,
Circle Jerks,
Altered Images,
Khruangbin,
Delon & Dalcan,
MC5,
Anthony Braxton,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Don Cherry,
Radio Birdman,
Procol Harum,
MDC,
Malaria!,
Soft Cell,
Lakeside,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Angels of Light,
Quando Quango,
Colin Newman,
Davy DMX,
Magazine,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fall,
Das Ding,
Morten Harket,
John Cale,
Lindisfarne,
Chris Corsano,
Surgeon,
Crime,
Scott Walker,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kayak,
Isaac Hayes,
Negative Approach,
The Alarm Clocks,
Oblivians,
Au Pairs,
Joey Negro,
Robert Wyatt,
Bill Wells,
Monolake,
Television,
the Association,
Buzzcocks,
Ralphi Rosario,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.