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 Namibia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Taipei.
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 oboe 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 Camberwell Now to the disco 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric B and Rakim 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thompson Twins,
Niagra,
Swans,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mission of Burma,
Soulsonic Force,
Radiopuhelimet,
Animal Collective,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Television,
The Moody Blues,
ABBA,
the Swans,
In Retrospect,
Underground Resistance,
Guru Guru,
Warren Ellis,
The Red Krayola,
London Community Gospel Choir,
ABC,
Stetsasonic,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Residents,
Oneida,
James White and The Blacks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Smiths,
The Invisible,
Agitation Free,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Agent Orange,
Moby Grape,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skaos,
Skarface,
Roxy Music,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Smoke,
Wire,
Yaz,
Sun City Girls,
Ronnie Foster,
Brass Construction,
Marvin Gaye,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Angels of Light,
Average White Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Massinfluence,
F. McDonald,
The Cowsills,
The Mummies,
Buzzcocks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cluster,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.