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 Georgia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Donald Fagen 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 Michelle Simonal to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Offenders,
Nick Fraelich,
Anakelly,
Gastr Del Sol,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Aural Exciters,
Harpers Bizarre,
B.T. Express,
Zapp,
The Invisible,
Alphaville,
Black Moon,
Bronski Beat,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Smiths,
Magma,
Sparks,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Tim Buckley,
Isaac Hayes,
Danielle Patucci,
Scientists,
the Human League,
World's Most,
Wally Richardson,
Aloha Tigers,
Gabor Szabo,
Albert Ayler,
Ultimate Spinach,
Yellowson,
Matthew Halsall,
Barry Ungar,
Ponytail,
The Standells,
Ken Boothe,
Sun City Girls,
Boredoms,
Camberwell Now,
Scott Walker,
The Fall,
Scion,
Qualms,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Red Krayola,
Wolf Eyes,
Ituana,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dawn Penn,
F. McDonald,
Joyce Sims,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
K-Klass,
Ten City,
The Dave Clark Five,
Vainqueur,
Pulsallama,
New Order,
EPMD,
Bobby Womack,
Brand Nubian,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.