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 Peru and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin 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 Grauzone to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Associates,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Knickerbockers,
John Foxx,
The Dirtbombs,
Lungfish,
MDC,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Soft Machine,
the Germs,
The Fall,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
Judy Mowatt,
Rotary Connection,
Radiopuhelimet,
Surgeon,
Outsiders,
Scientists,
Funky Four + One,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Neil Young,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ice-T,
Black Flag,
Eli Mardock,
Idris Muhammad,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Brothers Johnson,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Gladiators,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
T. Rex,
Wally Richardson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Echospace,
Brass Construction,
the Swans,
Erykah Badu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tubeway Army,
Depeche Mode,
Derrick Morgan,
Bauhaus,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Faust,
The Happenings,
Youth Brigade,
Adolescents,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tres Demented,
John Cale,
Cheater Slicks,
The Cramps,
Camouflage,
Half Japanese,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum, Procol Harum.
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.