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 Israel and from Madrid.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Martian to the rock 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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Altered Images,
Gil Scott Heron,
Qualms,
Nils Olav,
Johnny Clarke,
Inner City,
Saccharine Trust,
Dennis Brown,
Second Layer,
The Vogues,
Delta 5,
The Wake,
Shuggie Otis,
Suburban Knight,
Wasted Youth,
Black Flag,
The Fuzztones,
the Sonics,
Stetsasonic,
Jandek,
The Raincoats,
Excepter,
New Order,
Lalann,
Zero Boys,
Monolake,
Q65,
Liliput,
Trumans Water,
Jesper Dahlback,
The New Christs,
Deadbeat,
Judy Mowatt,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eric B and Rakim,
Johnny Osbourne,
Underground Resistance,
Massinfluence,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Moon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Barbara Tucker,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Blackbyrds,
Slave,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Todd Terry,
The Gladiators,
Josef K,
The Dead C,
Lee Hazlewood,
8 Eyed Spy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Half Japanese,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Infiniti,
Pole,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.