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 Afghanistan and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida 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?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Thee Headcoats,
Gong,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Yazoo,
Neil Young,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Matthew Bourne,
Black Moon,
Moby Grape,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kerri Chandler,
Eric Copeland,
the Slits,
Frankie Knuckles,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
John Coltrane,
The Stooges,
Kevin Saunderson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Procol Harum,
Swell Maps,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Glenn Branca,
Letta Mbulu,
B.T. Express,
The Star Department,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soft Cell,
Q and Not U,
Hashim,
Scott Walker,
Wolf Eyes,
Television Personalities,
The Offenders,
Yaz,
The Happenings,
The Smoke,
Goldenarms,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Golliwogs,
Magma,
Buzzcocks,
Black Pus,
Skarface,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Carl Craig,
Jeff Lynne,
Patti Smith,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Techniques,
Nas,
Susan Cadogan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Con Funk Shun,
Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav.
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.