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 Chad and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Seoul.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
John Lydon,
The Gories,
8 Eyed Spy,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lakeside,
Index,
Bob Dylan,
The Fall,
Guru Guru,
Aloha Tigers,
DNA,
Sarah Menescal,
Deakin,
Eli Mardock,
Blancmange,
Mo-Dettes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Country Teasers,
Royal Trux,
Sällskapet,
Aswad,
Ornette Coleman,
Joey Negro,
The Blackbyrds,
B.T. Express,
Robert Hood,
Alice Coltrane,
Accadde A,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cheater Slicks,
Susan Cadogan,
Echospace,
The Stooges,
Blake Baxter,
Donny Hathaway,
The Beau Brummels,
DJ Style,
Das Ding,
In Retrospect,
Minutemen,
Eric Copeland,
Stiv Bators,
Lalann,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Parry Music,
Joe Smooth,
Oneida,
Piero Umiliani,
This Heat,
Colin Newman,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Zero Boys,
Sound Behaviour,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Tremeloes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.