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 Tanzania and from Manila.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 UT to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Tubeway Army,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Trojans,
Lalann,
Supertramp,
Sandy B,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Beau Brummels,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Tommy Roe,
Visage,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ornette Coleman,
Intrusion,
The Fire Engines,
the Germs,
Lucky Dragons,
Crooked Eye,
Talk Talk,
The Fugs,
The Index,
James White and The Blacks,
Avey Tare,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Shoche,
The Last Poets,
Unrelated Segments,
Sound Behaviour,
Anakelly,
Connie Case,
John Cale,
Ohio Players,
Eurythmics,
The Neon Judgement,
X-101,
Das Ding,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Leonard Cohen,
Bush Tetras,
Silicon Teens,
Don Cherry,
Wolf Eyes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scott Walker,
Nik Kershaw,
Iggy Pop,
Lungfish,
Make Up,
Janne Schatter,
Marvin Gaye,
June of 44,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Flipper,
Babytalk,
Thompson Twins,
The Sonics,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
DJ Style,
Prince Buster,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.