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 Sierra Leone and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 linndrum 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 Connie Case to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lungfish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
MDC,
Tom Boy,
Little Man,
Erykah Badu,
The Young Rascals,
Man Eating Sloth,
Chris & Cosey,
Soulsonic Force,
AZ,
Jeff Lynne,
Trumans Water,
Minor Threat,
Gerry Rafferty,
Whodini,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
David McCallum,
Moss Icon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hashim,
Absolute Body Control,
Radiohead,
The Cramps,
Guru Guru,
Electric Prunes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Easy Going,
Outsiders,
Suburban Knight,
Crime,
Index,
Ornette Coleman,
Boz Scaggs,
Jacob Miller,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pierre Henry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Association,
Shoche,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rakim,
Slick Rick,
Marvin Gaye,
The Names,
Grey Daturas,
Connie Case,
The Mojo Men,
Fad Gadget,
Procol Harum,
Swans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Deadbeat,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
K-Klass,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Don Cherry,
The Raincoats,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scratch Acid,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.