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 Haiti 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Divine Comedy to the punk 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Junior Murvin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Make Up record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Throbbing Gristle,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Darondo,
The Velvet Underground,
Kevin Saunderson,
Anthony Braxton,
The Beau Brummels,
Eve St. Jones,
Matthew Halsall,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Remains,
The Moody Blues,
Roxy Music,
Suburban Knight,
Sun City Girls,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Babytalk,
Barrington Levy,
Man Eating Sloth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rotary Connection,
Idris Muhammad,
Vladislav Delay,
Alphaville,
cv313,
Dave Gahan,
Camberwell Now,
Panda Bear,
Sound Behaviour,
Quadrant,
The Monochrome Set,
the Swans,
John Foxx,
Funkadelic,
Joy Division,
kango's stein massive,
ABBA,
Parry Music,
Smog,
Colin Newman,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pulsallama,
David Axelrod,
The Wake,
Lower 48,
Eden Ahbez,
Iggy Pop,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Knickerbockers,
World's Most,
Ornette Coleman,
The Gories,
Judy Mowatt,
Public Image Ltd.,
Drexciya,
48th St. Collective,
Duran Duran,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.