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 Mozambique and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Toasters to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
Fear,
Lakeside,
Eden Ahbez,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Donny Hathaway,
Wings,
The Walker Brothers,
Minor Threat,
Minny Pops,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Guru Guru,
The Names,
L. Decosne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Negative Approach,
Cheater Slicks,
Rakim,
Leonard Cohen,
Ken Boothe,
DJ Style,
Sun City Girls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sun Ra,
Isaac Hayes,
10cc,
The Gories,
Cecil Taylor,
Babytalk,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Public Image Ltd.,
Goldenarms,
Groovy Waters,
The Gladiators,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Grass Roots,
Fela Kuti,
The Neon Judgement,
Carl Craig,
Jeff Lynne,
Ronan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fad Gadget,
The Move,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
48th St. Collective,
La Düsseldorf,
Black Sheep,
The Searchers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Flash Fearless,
Pole,
MDC,
Main Source,
Nik Kershaw,
Faust,
The Standells,
Eve St. Jones,
Hardrive,
Magazine,
Eli Mardock,
Pylon,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.