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 Hungary and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 snare 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 Niagra to the crunk 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Peter & Gordon,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Flesh Eaters,
Brass Construction,
Make Up,
Suburban Knight,
Joe Finger,
Scientists,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The New Christs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lyres,
Deadbeat,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Robert Wyatt,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kenny Larkin,
The Smoke,
Groovy Waters,
The Beau Brummels,
The Golliwogs,
Y Pants,
cv313,
The Modern Lovers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Surgeon,
Joe Smooth,
Arthur Verocai,
Moss Icon,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Vladislav Delay,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
X-Ray Spex,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
JFA,
Hasil Adkins,
Pole,
Public Image Ltd.,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Niagra,
Yusef Lateef,
Eric Copeland,
Panda Bear,
Suicide,
David Bowie,
Lakeside,
David Axelrod,
D'Angelo,
Excepter,
Neil Young,
Flash Fearless,
The Saints,
The J.B.'s,
Smog,
Organ,
Tears for Fears,
Basic Channel,
Howard Jones,
Ronan,
Can, Can, Can, Can.
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.