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 Cyprus and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Grauzone to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Jawbox,
La Düsseldorf,
Chrome,
Television,
Von Mondo,
Absolute Body Control,
Roger Hodgson,
Juan Atkins,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Techniques,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Deakin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bill Near,
Eric Dolphy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Invisible,
Parry Music,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nico,
Agitation Free,
Masters at Work,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Wire,
K-Klass,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pet Shop Boys,
Underground Resistance,
The Velvet Underground,
Theoretical Girls,
Mission of Burma,
The Knickerbockers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Groovy Waters,
Negative Approach,
Sixth Finger,
Maleditus Sound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Deadbeat,
Tears for Fears,
Mantronix,
Pierre Henry,
Rakim,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Can,
cv313,
Matthew Bourne,
F. McDonald,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chris & Cosey,
Howard Jones,
Boz Scaggs,
Lalann,
Stereo Dub,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.