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 Botswana and from Spokane.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ludus to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Chrome,
Peter & Gordon,
Aloha Tigers,
The Busters,
Niagra,
Y Pants,
AZ,
Bad Manners,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pagans,
Sandy B,
Soulsonic Force,
Surgeon,
the Sonics,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Maleditus Sound,
The Victims,
John Cale,
Theoretical Girls,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ronan,
Vladislav Delay,
Pole,
Groovy Waters,
Altered Images,
Jandek,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Neon Judgement,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
10cc,
Ossler,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marshall Jefferson,
Boz Scaggs,
Joey Negro,
The Five Americans,
Lalann,
Joe Finger,
Von Mondo,
Graham Central Station,
Kenny Larkin,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lucky Dragons,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Main Source,
Bush Tetras,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Modern Lovers,
Stereo Dub,
Gichy Dan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Shoche,
Rotary Connection,
Royal Trux,
Lalo Schifrin,
Scratch Acid,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.