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 Mali and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 spring reverb 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
The Doors,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eric Copeland,
Wally Richardson,
The Skatalites,
Schoolly D,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bill Wells,
Pierre Henry,
Scratch Acid,
L. Decosne,
Bad Manners,
Bootsy Collins,
Blake Baxter,
Cal Tjader,
Ice-T,
Roxy Music,
AZ,
Susan Cadogan,
The J.B.'s,
Public Enemy,
Graham Central Station,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Dirtbombs,
K-Klass,
Chris & Cosey,
Letta Mbulu,
Quantec,
Stetsasonic,
Mary Jane Girls,
Mark Hollis,
Lindisfarne,
PIL,
David Axelrod,
Eli Mardock,
the Germs,
Kenny Larkin,
Brothers Johnson,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Human League,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Quadrant,
MDC,
Average White Band,
Gabor Szabo,
In Retrospect,
Franke,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Smoke,
Barry Ungar,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
KRS-One,
Technova,
Eddi Front,
Parry Music,
Japan,
Banda Bassotti,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bobby Byrd,
Pantaleimon,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.