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 Netherlands and from Halifax.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Alton Ellis to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Adolescents,
Agent Orange,
Bill Wells,
Vainqueur,
Yusef Lateef,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
John Foxx,
X-101,
The United States of America,
Albert Ayler,
Groovy Waters,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kerri Chandler,
Babytalk,
Electric Prunes,
Grauzone,
Dennis Brown,
The Shadows of Knight,
Barbara Tucker,
Franke,
Faraquet,
L. Decosne,
Lucky Dragons,
Kas Product,
Steve Hackett,
Soft Machine,
LL Cool J,
Scion,
The Velvet Underground,
K-Klass,
Lou Christie,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter and Kerry,
David Axelrod,
The Beau Brummels,
Sun City Girls,
Joe Smooth,
Minny Pops,
Sonic Youth,
Anthony Braxton,
The Searchers,
Kurtis Blow,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Icehouse,
Joe Finger,
Fugazi,
Isaac Hayes,
Graham Central Station,
The Smoke,
Robert Hood,
Yellowson,
Masters at Work,
The Fugs,
Liliput,
The Tremeloes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.