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 Burkina and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Sao Paulo.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Pere Ubu to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All The United States of America tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange 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 a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
David Bowie,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Radio Birdman,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stetsasonic,
Black Sheep,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Newcleus,
Massinfluence,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Man Parrish,
Siglo XX,
Gichy Dan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jandek,
Yellowson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Todd Terry,
The Cure,
Mr. Review,
Cluster,
This Heat,
Echospace,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Maurizio,
Frankie Knuckles,
Arab on Radar,
La Düsseldorf,
Scratch Acid,
Soft Machine,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nick Fraelich,
Masters at Work,
Dorothy Ashby,
Clear Light,
Warren Ellis,
Vainqueur,
Patti Smith,
CMW,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
FM Einheit,
Bob Dylan,
Sixth Finger,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skarface,
The New Christs,
The Zeros,
Anthony Braxton,
Sonny Sharrock,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Franke,
The Fall,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Peter and Kerry,
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow.
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.