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 the UAE and from Calgary.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pantytec,
Hot Snakes,
Dual Sessions,
Wire,
the Normal,
Sun City Girls,
Quando Quango,
Faraquet,
Graham Central Station,
Prince Buster,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Human League,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mr. Review,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Tremeloes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Roxette,
Susan Cadogan,
Stetsasonic,
June Days,
KRS-One,
Desert Stars,
Darondo,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Suicide,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Divine Comedy,
Brothers Johnson,
Los Fastidios,
The Associates,
Faust,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
L. Decosne,
Pulsallama,
The Happenings,
The Skatalites,
Harpers Bizarre,
Junior Murvin,
Leonard Cohen,
Television,
Dead Boys,
Kayak,
Moss Icon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sällskapet,
DJ Sneak,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Letta Mbulu,
The Standells,
Delon & Dalcan,
In Retrospect,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bobby Womack,
The Angels of Light,
Royal Trux,
The Victims,
Gang Gang Dance,
David McCallum,
The Seeds,
Minnie Riperton,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.