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 Mexico and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Deadbeat to the electroclash 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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Albert Ayler,
Robert Hood,
Tres Demented,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jacob Miller,
Joey Negro,
Brand Nubian,
Kurtis Blow,
Blancmange,
Aloha Tigers,
Surgeon,
the Normal,
Absolute Body Control,
Ponytail,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Excepter,
Audionom,
Aural Exciters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Trumans Water,
Tommy Roe,
Drexciya,
The Sonics,
Pagans,
Scott Walker,
10cc,
The Gories,
Can,
Spoonie Gee,
Bobby Womack,
Popol Vuh,
Khruangbin,
Malaria!,
Joensuu 1685,
Tears for Fears,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stockholm Monsters,
A Certain Ratio,
Peter & Gordon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Donny Hathaway,
Donald Byrd,
Visage,
Grandmaster Flash,
Alton Ellis,
cv313,
Quadrant,
Reagan Youth,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Cale,
Kerri Chandler,
The Evens,
John Foxx,
The Toasters,
Section 25,
Cameo,
Joyce Sims,
Byron Stingily,
The Cure,
Sight & Sound,
Black Sheep,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.