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 Bangladesh and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 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 Pagans to the dance 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 Steve Hackett. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rakim,
Newcleus,
The Slackers,
Bill Wells,
Glenn Branca,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nick Fraelich,
Eddi Front,
The Barracudas,
cv313,
Sam Rivers,
Bang On A Can,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Symarip,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Grass Roots,
Darondo,
The Index,
The Blackbyrds,
Idris Muhammad,
Reuben Wilson,
Spoonie Gee,
Sun Ra,
Nas,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marvin Gaye,
Hasil Adkins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New York Dolls,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Andrew Hill,
The New Christs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Icehouse,
Danielle Patucci,
Marc Almond,
Niagra,
Unwound,
Drive Like Jehu,
Goldenarms,
Parry Music,
The Buckinghams,
Jeff Lynne,
Max Romeo,
OOIOO,
The Selecter,
Altered Images,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Amazonics,
Shoche,
Silicon Teens,
The Angels of Light,
Tropical Tobacco,
Joensuu 1685,
Piero Umiliani,
the Fania All-Stars,
Faraquet,
Moebius,
Cybotron,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.