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 Jordan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Japan to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Trumans Water,
Minutemen,
The Neon Judgement,
The Seeds,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Walker Brothers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Animal Collective,
Pet Shop Boys,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Half Japanese,
Sound Behaviour,
Jesper Dahlback,
Robert Hood,
The Stooges,
Absolute Body Control,
CMW,
Jandek,
Echospace,
Nico,
Delta 5,
Donald Byrd,
John Cale,
K-Klass,
Brothers Johnson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
B.T. Express,
Kerri Chandler,
Freddie Wadling,
Qualms,
June of 44,
Anakelly,
The Busters,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Altered Images,
Rod Modell,
Popol Vuh,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Darondo,
Reuben Wilson,
Pussy Galore,
Saccharine Trust,
Ponytail,
Sex Pistols,
Sonny Sharrock,
Agent Orange,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dual Sessions,
Maleditus Sound,
Ten City,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Cure,
Aaron Thompson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Monks,
New Order,
The Offenders,
John Coltrane,
Franke,
Derrick May,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.