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 Syria and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Marmalade to the funk 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Aaron Thompson,
Aloha Tigers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bad Manners,
Mission of Burma,
A Certain Ratio,
The United States of America,
Yaz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Au Pairs,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Fugs,
Scratch Acid,
Y Pants,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Funkadelic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Interpol,
Lungfish,
Tears for Fears,
Main Source,
Public Image Ltd.,
K-Klass,
Stereo Dub,
Fugazi,
The Raincoats,
DNA,
John Foxx,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Vogues,
Spoonie Gee,
The Golliwogs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Talk Talk,
Bang On A Can,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sonny Sharrock,
Youth Brigade,
Moby Grape,
The Monks,
Kas Product,
Model 500,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
MDC,
Marcia Griffiths,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camberwell Now,
U.S. Maple,
Tres Demented,
The Wake,
Monks,
D'Angelo,
Dark Day,
Rhythm & Sound,
Minor Threat,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.