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 Kuwait and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Byron Stingily 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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
The Names,
Bizarre Inc.,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Echospace,
Crash Course in Science,
Ten City,
Stiv Bators,
Amon Düül,
Quantec,
The Young Rascals,
Maurizio,
Supertramp,
Joe Finger,
Panda Bear,
David Bowie,
The Knickerbockers,
The Residents,
The Music Machine,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Todd Rundgren,
The Cramps,
Cheater Slicks,
Eli Mardock,
Hardrive,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sound Behaviour,
Moebius,
Piero Umiliani,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalann,
Bobby Womack,
Theoretical Girls,
The Walker Brothers,
Procol Harum,
Ludus,
Peter & Gordon,
CMW,
Jerry's Kids,
Alice Coltrane,
Nas,
Television,
Henry Cow,
Stetsasonic,
Janne Schatter,
Half Japanese,
Don Cherry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Five Americans,
Fela Kuti,
Monolake,
Zero Boys,
Animal Collective,
Roxy Music,
Lyres,
Joensuu 1685,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
DJ Style,
Brass Construction,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.