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 Congo and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 rhodes 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 The Fortunes to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Sneak 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
MC5,
Rosa Yemen,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
MDC,
Scion,
Interpol,
Alton Ellis,
The Motions,
Nirvana,
Althea and Donna,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kevin Saunderson,
Slave,
Gabor Szabo,
CMW,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
Piero Umiliani,
Harmonia,
Guru Guru,
Scratch Acid,
Ken Boothe,
Circle Jerks,
The Velvet Underground,
Vladislav Delay,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lucky Dragons,
The Barracudas,
Stereo Dub,
AZ,
Los Fastidios,
Drive Like Jehu,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Fire Engines,
Unwound,
Tommy Roe,
Cameo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gang of Four,
Bill Near,
Minny Pops,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cybotron,
Man Eating Sloth,
Maurizio,
Wasted Youth,
Kaleidoscope,
Ornette Coleman,
Bang On A Can,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Negative Approach,
Eric Copeland,
H. Thieme,
Idris Muhammad,
The Pop Group,
Skaos,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Deepchord,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.