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 Estonia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Sao Paulo.
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 arpeggiator 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 Kerrie Biddell to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Moebius,
Kaleidoscope,
Sound Behaviour,
The Modern Lovers,
Lower 48,
These Immortal Souls,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ice-T,
Susan Cadogan,
Stetsasonic,
Todd Rundgren,
Joe Finger,
Wolf Eyes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tubeway Army,
The Kinks,
John Lydon,
The Fortunes,
Sun Ra,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Thee Headcoats,
D'Angelo,
Television Personalities,
Rapeman,
June of 44,
Model 500,
The Moleskins,
Kas Product,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Tomorrow,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
LL Cool J,
Shuggie Otis,
Pere Ubu,
Brick,
Soul II Soul,
Pagans,
Michelle Simonal,
Ohio Players,
Robert Wyatt,
Skaos,
Graham Central Station,
Yazoo,
Black Moon,
Icehouse,
The Doors,
Aswad,
Sister Nancy,
Todd Terry,
AZ,
Rites of Spring,
Freddie Wadling,
The Doobie Brothers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.