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 Sierra Leone and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Amazonics to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Swans,
UT,
Brand Nubian,
Livin' Joy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ralphi Rosario,
Technova,
Q and Not U,
June of 44,
Quantec,
Minor Threat,
Ultravox,
Television Personalities,
Sound Behaviour,
Magazine,
Scratch Acid,
OOIOO,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Black Pus,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Young Rascals,
Arcadia,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Reuben Wilson,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mission of Burma,
Joyce Sims,
Pharoah Sanders,
Black Sheep,
New Age Steppers,
ABC,
Pylon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Chrome,
Harry Pussy,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Offenders,
Silicon Teens,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Ossler,
Godley & Creme,
Babytalk,
Yaz,
Lower 48,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Slackers,
Alison Limerick,
Minnie Riperton,
Derrick Morgan,
Newcleus,
Motorama,
U.S. Maple,
John Foxx,
Joensuu 1685,
Jeru the Damaja,
Peter & Gordon,
Hashim,
Index, Index, Index, Index.
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.