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 Jordan and from Copenhagen.
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 Tehran and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Barry Ungar to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
The Fortunes,
Guru Guru,
Basic Channel,
Oblivians,
Wolf Eyes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Raincoats,
Soft Machine,
Gang Green,
Interpol,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mark Hollis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Derrick Morgan,
Spandau Ballet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
June Days,
Kerri Chandler,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hashim,
The Walker Brothers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric Copeland,
Fatback Band,
Delta 5,
Angry Samoans,
Pantytec,
Slave,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mission of Burma,
Crash Course in Science,
Alton Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Sonics,
Idris Muhammad,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Sonics,
Radiohead,
the Normal,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joensuu 1685,
Soulsonic Force,
Quadrant,
Sällskapet,
Jacques Brel,
Simply Red,
Bobby Womack,
The Electric Prunes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Aloha Tigers,
MC5,
Outsiders,
Michelle Simonal,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Fugs,
Junior Murvin,
Babytalk,
Drive Like Jehu,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.