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 Australia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 oboe 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the crunk 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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Basic Channel,
The Grass Roots,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
This Heat,
Mark Hollis,
Wolf Eyes,
LL Cool J,
Negative Approach,
The Blackbyrds,
The Standells,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Star Department,
The New Christs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kenny Larkin,
John Cale,
June of 44,
Deepchord,
Camberwell Now,
Lalann,
Barry Ungar,
Eden Ahbez,
the Normal,
Ludus,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Funky Four + One,
Con Funk Shun,
Popol Vuh,
Can,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scion,
Youth Brigade,
Half Japanese,
Radiopuhelimet,
Moss Icon,
June Days,
Eli Mardock,
Ohio Players,
Bauhaus,
Wire,
The Names,
Siglo XX,
Byron Stingily,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Animal Collective,
The Moody Blues,
Eurythmics,
The Golliwogs,
Bang On A Can,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Tom Boy,
Tears for Fears,
Outsiders,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Schoolly D,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pagans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.