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 Romania and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Don Cherry to the grime 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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Gories,
the Normal,
Lucky Dragons,
Quando Quango,
Suburban Knight,
the Soft Cell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Von Mondo,
Pierre Henry,
Terrestrial Tones,
June of 44,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Barracudas,
Bluetip,
the Germs,
Organ,
Marvin Gaye,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Public Image Ltd.,
Al Stewart,
Parry Music,
Nils Olav,
the Slits,
Slick Rick,
Scott Walker,
The American Breed,
Ponytail,
Slave,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Modern Lovers,
Minnie Riperton,
The Toasters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Country Teasers,
The Techniques,
Mad Mike,
Warsaw,
Motorama,
cv313,
Thompson Twins,
Animal Collective,
Eric Copeland,
Ludus,
Idris Muhammad,
In Retrospect,
The Cure,
The Neon Judgement,
Desert Stars,
The Remains,
Flash Fearless,
Vainqueur,
Todd Terry,
Moebius,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Simply Red,
the Sonics,
the Swans,
Vladislav Delay,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.