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 Madagascar and from Milan.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scott Walker to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
Main Source,
Skriet,
Sonny Sharrock,
Skarface,
Funkadelic,
The Skatalites,
Loose Ends,
Nirvana,
Neu!,
Los Fastidios,
Symarip,
Tears for Fears,
Rod Modell,
Ten City,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fall,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Radiohead,
Absolute Body Control,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Fire Engines,
T. Rex,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Freddie Wadling,
Bad Manners,
Blancmange,
The Barracudas,
The Victims,
Mandrill,
Man Parrish,
The Cure,
Sixth Finger,
Moebius,
Babytalk,
Panda Bear,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
MDC,
Parry Music,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Stetsasonic,
the Slits,
The Buckinghams,
Brick,
Aswad,
The Knickerbockers,
the Swans,
Barclay James Harvest,
Iggy Pop,
Black Moon,
China Crisis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Severed Heads,
The Grass Roots,
Bobby Sherman,
Roxy Music,
Urselle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.