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 Seychelles and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lakeside to the jazz 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 The Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Sarah Menescal,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Avey Tare,
Tubeway Army,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lou Christie,
The Invisible,
10cc,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fluxion,
Kerrie Biddell,
Donald Byrd,
Fela Kuti,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Monochrome Set,
Excepter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Cabaret Voltaire,
a-ha,
Hot Snakes,
Laurel Aitken,
Dave Gahan,
Jandek,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
New Order,
Vladislav Delay,
Essential Logic,
Deepchord,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Flesh Eaters,
Janne Schatter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Cramps,
Sixth Finger,
The Blackbyrds,
Cymande,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Delon & Dalcan,
Barbara Tucker,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Angels of Light,
Von Mondo,
Maurizio,
Colin Newman,
Eddi Front,
Man Parrish,
The Real Kids,
Trumans Water,
The Vogues,
Electric Prunes,
cv313,
X-102,
Hasil Adkins,
Connie Case,
Dead Boys,
Soulsonic Force,
Brand Nubian,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.