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 Qatar and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camberwell Now to the jazz 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 The Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Throbbing Gristle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Goldenarms,
Marshall Jefferson,
Silicon Teens,
Von Mondo,
Warren Ellis,
The United States of America,
The Fuzztones,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Essential Logic,
Zero Boys,
L. Decosne,
The Pretty Things,
Flash Fearless,
Malaria!,
Charles Mingus,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joensuu 1685,
Scion,
Loose Ends,
kango's stein massive,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Stiv Bators,
The Names,
Main Source,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scan 7,
The Associates,
The Birthday Party,
KRS-One,
Symarip,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Second Layer,
Moss Icon,
Funkadelic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Juan Atkins,
Average White Band,
Visage,
Qualms,
Cecil Taylor,
Scientists,
Circle Jerks,
The Gun Club,
Janne Schatter,
New Age Steppers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Barry Ungar,
The Mojo Men,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tears for Fears,
Sex Pistols,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Busters,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eddi Front,
Whodini,
Swell Maps,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fluxion,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.