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 Macedonia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jacques Brel to the grunge 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Crash Course in Science,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Hot Snakes,
the Germs,
Parry Music,
Monolake,
Eurythmics,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Wake,
Zapp,
The Modern Lovers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Sneak,
Wings,
Henry Cow,
Kevin Saunderson,
Skaos,
Curtis Mayfield,
Absolute Body Control,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Doors,
The Leaves,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Essential Logic,
The Offenders,
Eli Mardock,
Gong,
Newcleus,
Bush Tetras,
Young Marble Giants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Underground Resistance,
Erykah Badu,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Zero Boys,
Angry Samoans,
The Fortunes,
Kerri Chandler,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobby Sherman,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Moby Grape,
The Mummies,
Ultravox,
Make Up,
Pole,
OOIOO,
Laurel Aitken,
Nas,
10cc,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Bar-Kays,
Minor Threat,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Neu!,
The Residents,
Clear Light,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.