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 Iraq and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 David Bowie 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 Susan Cadogan to the funk 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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
Radiohead,
Isaac Hayes,
Underground Resistance,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Slackers,
Angry Samoans,
Flash Fearless,
The Doors,
Fluxion,
Oneida,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Babytalk,
The Busters,
Skaos,
Siglo XX,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Boredoms,
Lebanon Hanover,
Anakelly,
Sex Pistols,
10cc,
LL Cool J,
Deepchord,
Silicon Teens,
Parry Music,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Joensuu 1685,
Sly & The Family Stone,
June of 44,
Black Sheep,
Prince Buster,
Vainqueur,
Groovy Waters,
Brass Construction,
Nils Olav,
Das Ding,
Steve Hackett,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jesper Dahlback,
World's Most,
The Fall,
Ornette Coleman,
Jeff Lynne,
Kas Product,
Technova,
The Gories,
Judy Mowatt,
Ralphi Rosario,
Echospace,
Ash Ra Tempel,
a-ha,
Joe Smooth,
Rekid,
The Vogues,
Harry Pussy,
Average White Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.