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 Rwanda and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 synthesizer 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 Saccharine Trust to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Godley & Creme,
Sugar Minott,
Nik Kershaw,
MDC,
Public Image Ltd.,
Q and Not U,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jawbox,
Harry Pussy,
Theoretical Girls,
Michelle Simonal,
Intrusion,
Arcadia,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Offenders,
Country Teasers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Trojans,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bluetip,
Aural Exciters,
The Dead C,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ludus,
Judy Mowatt,
John Lydon,
Don Cherry,
The Barracudas,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Y Pants,
John Cale,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Soul II Soul,
Cecil Taylor,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sonny Sharrock,
Swell Maps,
Sarah Menescal,
Ronnie Foster,
James White and The Blacks,
Clear Light,
Neil Young,
Brand Nubian,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dark Day,
The Evens,
David Axelrod,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Piero Umiliani,
The Red Krayola,
K-Klass,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Human League,
Electric Prunes,
Derrick Morgan,
Motorama,
Adolescents,
Todd Terry,
Outsiders,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.