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 Germany and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ 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 Kaleidoscope to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Shadows of Knight,
U.S. Maple,
UT,
Thompson Twins,
The Searchers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kayak,
Sister Nancy,
the Human League,
The Fuzztones,
Urselle,
cv313,
Anthony Braxton,
New York Dolls,
The Happenings,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Livin' Joy,
Skriet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sonny Sharrock,
Radiohead,
The Durutti Column,
David Bowie,
Second Layer,
Easy Going,
Absolute Body Control,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joyce Sims,
Adolescents,
Rosa Yemen,
Graham Central Station,
AZ,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Delta 5,
Lindisfarne,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vainqueur,
Excepter,
Aloha Tigers,
Model 500,
Roxy Music,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Red Krayola,
DJ Sneak,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Fad Gadget,
Bobbi Humphrey,
These Immortal Souls,
The Grass Roots,
the Sonics,
Reagan Youth,
The Litter,
Deepchord,
Public Image Ltd.,
Whodini,
Das Ding,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.