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 Cameroon and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eric Dolphy to the punk 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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Man Eating Sloth,
Scratch Acid,
Rod Modell,
Can,
Kas Product,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scan 7,
Audionom,
Steve Hackett,
Ituana,
The Alarm Clocks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Joe Smooth,
Icehouse,
Sarah Menescal,
Organ,
Ponytail,
Gang Green,
Malaria!,
One Last Wish,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jandek,
Dead Boys,
The Young Rascals,
The Cowsills,
Cecil Taylor,
Sun Ra,
The Mummies,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Fad Gadget,
Lou Reed,
Tim Buckley,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Dennis Brown,
Average White Band,
Arab on Radar,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Black Dice,
Babytalk,
The Fugs,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Pylon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Royal Trux,
LL Cool J,
John Foxx,
Scion,
Tres Demented,
Hot Snakes,
Quadrant,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wire,
Television,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Man Parrish,
The Smoke,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.