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 Dominica and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 Au Pairs to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Man Parrish,
Mission of Burma,
Skarface,
The Real Kids,
Black Bananas,
Procol Harum,
Dorothy Ashby,
Stiv Bators,
Cheater Slicks,
LL Cool J,
The Sound,
Bronski Beat,
Warren Ellis,
Ultravox,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gong,
The Saints,
The Barracudas,
Skriet,
Sun Ra,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James White and The Blacks,
Gichy Dan,
Jeff Mills,
Josef K,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tomorrow,
Sex Pistols,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
This Heat,
DJ Sneak,
Unrelated Segments,
Khruangbin,
The Cowsills,
Colin Newman,
Fear,
Joe Finger,
Sexual Harrassment,
One Last Wish,
Buzzcocks,
Darondo,
Rosa Yemen,
Ten City,
L. Decosne,
Camouflage,
Funky Four + One,
Lindisfarne,
48th St. Collective,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jeru the Damaja,
DJ Style,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Vogues,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scientists,
Harmonia,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.