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 Palau 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Minutemen to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
The Modern Lovers,
Suburban Knight,
Yaz,
Ralphi Rosario,
Yellowson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nils Olav,
Trumans Water,
June Days,
Magazine,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lucky Dragons,
Prince Buster,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Buckinghams,
Lalann,
Audionom,
Half Japanese,
Roger Hodgson,
B.T. Express,
The Music Machine,
Tres Demented,
Black Flag,
The Durutti Column,
Circle Jerks,
Quando Quango,
Eric Copeland,
Interpol,
Shoche,
Outsiders,
The Gories,
Average White Band,
Tomorrow,
Graham Central Station,
Malaria!,
Barrington Levy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Minnie Riperton,
Smog,
Lou Christie,
Man Eating Sloth,
Depeche Mode,
The Gun Club,
Rites of Spring,
Soulsonic Force,
Lyres,
Frankie Knuckles,
La Düsseldorf,
Nation of Ulysses,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Television,
The Fuzztones,
Q65,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Das Ding,
The Zeros,
Sonny Sharrock,
Yazoo,
Livin' Joy,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.