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 Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Calgary and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba 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 Dual Sessions to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Desert Stars,
Ossler,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ituana,
Oneida,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Animal Collective,
Tommy Roe,
Organ,
Scrapy,
Byron Stingily,
Marc Almond,
Peter & Gordon,
Chrome,
The Gap Band,
Yellowson,
Kenny Larkin,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Q and Not U,
Easy Going,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bill Wells,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bang On A Can,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Misunderstood,
Joey Negro,
Young Marble Giants,
Colin Newman,
La Düsseldorf,
Ponytail,
The Cowsills,
Au Pairs,
Judy Mowatt,
Groovy Waters,
the Bar-Kays,
The Doors,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Malaria!,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Seeds,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eric Dolphy,
Intrusion,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rod Modell,
Silicon Teens,
10cc,
Cymande,
Hoover,
Loose Ends,
Magazine,
Gang Starr,
Qualms,
Jerry's Kids,
Los Fastidios,
Lalo Schifrin,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.