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 Belize and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Paris.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pagans to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mantronix,
Section 25,
Lalann,
Marine Girls,
The Leaves,
Donny Hathaway,
The Pop Group,
The Smiths,
Pussy Galore,
Theoretical Girls,
Glenn Branca,
The Walker Brothers,
Easy Going,
Surgeon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bob Dylan,
T.S.O.L.,
Terry Callier,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Thompson Twins,
the Soft Cell,
Rites of Spring,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gabor Szabo,
Swans,
The Sonics,
John Lydon,
Soulsonic Force,
The Zeros,
The Real Kids,
Yaz,
Amon Düül II,
Matthew Bourne,
Barbara Tucker,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Golliwogs,
Delta 5,
Kurtis Blow,
F. McDonald,
Scratch Acid,
Sarah Menescal,
The Index,
Deepchord,
Jerry's Kids,
The Velvet Underground,
Pantaleimon,
Monolake,
cv313,
Buzzcocks,
Parry Music,
Cameo,
Simply Red,
DJ Style,
The Slits,
Outsiders,
Sight & Sound,
Mark Hollis,
Procol Harum,
the Slits,
Icehouse,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.