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 Switzerland and from New York.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Thompson Twins to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Blake Baxter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echospace,
Yaz,
Q65,
Gong,
Bronski Beat,
The Happenings,
Sister Nancy,
the Association,
The Sonics,
FM Einheit,
The Searchers,
Alton Ellis,
Crooked Eye,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rosa Yemen,
Loose Ends,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Doors,
Urselle,
Aloha Tigers,
Bad Manners,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vainqueur,
Black Bananas,
Electric Prunes,
Arcadia,
The Count Five,
Unwound,
Suicide,
Lower 48,
Jeff Mills,
ABC,
DNA,
Todd Rundgren,
Harmonia,
Gerry Rafferty,
Chris & Cosey,
Godley & Creme,
Lakeside,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Tears for Fears,
Jesper Dahlback,
Swell Maps,
Babytalk,
Graham Central Station,
Sam Rivers,
Swans,
Camouflage,
F. McDonald,
Ossler,
The Fugs,
Quando Quango,
Roxy Music,
Robert Wyatt,
Funky Four + One,
Bobby Byrd,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.