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 Grenada and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Organ to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
T. Rex,
Bizarre Inc.,
Hashim,
Masters at Work,
Essential Logic,
Alton Ellis,
Kayak,
Bootsy Collins,
Nirvana,
Skriet,
Sam Rivers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Royal Trux,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tom Boy,
Derrick Morgan,
Arab on Radar,
Brass Construction,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Anthony Braxton,
The Vogues,
Stetsasonic,
F. McDonald,
New Order,
The Count Five,
8 Eyed Spy,
ABC,
Brothers Johnson,
Nick Fraelich,
Monks,
The Fuzztones,
Bobby Sherman,
John Holt,
Soul Sonic Force,
X-Ray Spex,
The Index,
Bluetip,
JFA,
Gabor Szabo,
Fugazi,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bauhaus,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pagans,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tomorrow,
The Star Department,
Lucky Dragons,
The Evens,
Godley & Creme,
The Beau Brummels,
The Remains,
The Blues Magoos,
Panda Bear,
Max Romeo,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.