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 Germany and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum 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 Magazine to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jeff Mills,
Procol Harum,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Victims,
Eric B and Rakim,
Arab on Radar,
Lindisfarne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Gladiators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
ABC,
Eli Mardock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Newcleus,
Buzzcocks,
Derrick Morgan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Piero Umiliani,
Cluster,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Niagra,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Tremeloes,
Scan 7,
Sarah Menescal,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Can,
The Birthday Party,
Swans,
the Fania All-Stars,
F. McDonald,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
Zero Boys,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Minutemen,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Evens,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Magma,
Man Parrish,
Trumans Water,
OOIOO,
The Techniques,
Lyres,
The Alarm Clocks,
Agent Orange,
Section 25,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Skaos,
Crispian St. Peters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Girls At Our Best!,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.