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 Armenia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Philadelphia.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Grey Daturas to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Star Department record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Moleskins,
The Moody Blues,
Basic Channel,
The Standells,
Alphaville,
Reuben Wilson,
Roxy Music,
Piero Umiliani,
Crash Course in Science,
Gong,
Sun Ra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
cv313,
The Offenders,
ABBA,
Guru Guru,
Country Teasers,
Marmalade,
Wings,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Buckinghams,
Slick Rick,
The Dave Clark Five,
Joy Division,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brand Nubian,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Marvin Gaye,
Sonic Youth,
Tres Demented,
Peter & Gordon,
Minutemen,
10cc,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Unrelated Segments,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Radio Birdman,
Ossler,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Barracudas,
Joey Negro,
Roger Hodgson,
John Cale,
a-ha,
the Bar-Kays,
The Sound,
Monolake,
Bob Dylan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter and Kerry,
Magma,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Electric Prunes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Pretty Things,
These Immortal Souls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Junior Murvin,
Sonny Sharrock,
Agitation Free,
Ultimate Spinach,
Quantec,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.