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 Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 June Days to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Aloha Tigers,
The Durutti Column,
The Martian,
Loose Ends,
Erykah Badu,
The Buckinghams,
Grey Daturas,
Youth Brigade,
Pole,
Adolescents,
Wally Richardson,
Amon Düül,
FM Einheit,
Roy Ayers,
U.S. Maple,
ABBA,
Sam Rivers,
Procol Harum,
Y Pants,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bill Near,
Half Japanese,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
L. Decosne,
Man Eating Sloth,
Fela Kuti,
Sparks,
Ronnie Foster,
The Fugs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Delon & Dalcan,
Blake Baxter,
Quadrant,
Jawbox,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Excepter,
Michelle Simonal,
Terrestrial Tones,
The American Breed,
Sarah Menescal,
Roxette,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Blancmange,
Slave,
Rhythm & Sound,
Flash Fearless,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kaleidoscope,
Outsiders,
Danielle Patucci,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Glenn Branca,
The Alarm Clocks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The J.B.'s,
Soulsonic Force,
K-Klass,
Maurizio,
The Motions,
June of 44,
Delta 5,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.