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 Palau and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar 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 Sun Ra to the rock 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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Reuben Wilson,
Roxette,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Magma,
Deakin,
Excepter,
The Gap Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Agent Orange,
The Skatalites,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Saints,
Ice-T,
Eurythmics,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rufus Thomas,
Circle Jerks,
Joey Negro,
The Blues Magoos,
Simply Red,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Oblivians,
Maurizio,
Anakelly,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rekid,
Davy DMX,
Motorama,
Public Enemy,
Brass Construction,
Kaleidoscope,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Unrelated Segments,
David Axelrod,
Ultra Naté,
The Pop Group,
Mark Hollis,
Glambeats Corp.,
Babytalk,
Pulsallama,
Rapeman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Don Cherry,
Cecil Taylor,
Crooked Eye,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
B.T. Express,
Sun Ra,
Siglo XX,
The Index,
Danielle Patucci,
the Swans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Adolescents,
The Seeds,
Massinfluence,
Althea and Donna,
Pet Shop Boys,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.