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 Panama and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cybotron to the crunk 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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a D'Angelo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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?
Magazine,
The Invisible,
Shoche,
Unrelated Segments,
Jimmy McGriff,
Derrick May,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Spoonie Gee,
One Last Wish,
Sister Nancy,
Lucky Dragons,
Sonic Youth,
Soul Sonic Force,
John Holt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Trojans,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sight & Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
AZ,
Altered Images,
Lou Reed,
Absolute Body Control,
the Bar-Kays,
Jawbox,
Thee Headcoats,
The Remains,
the Normal,
Joensuu 1685,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Archie Shepp,
the Sonics,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Gladiators,
Bang On A Can,
The Busters,
Goldenarms,
The Gap Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Moody Blues,
Brass Construction,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joe Smooth,
Mandrill,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Young Marble Giants,
The Black Dice,
Loose Ends,
Cheater Slicks,
The Durutti Column,
Essential Logic,
Blake Baxter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sun City Girls,
Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green.
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.