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 Mongolia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 theremin 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 Gang Green to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Khruangbin,
Q65,
Inner City,
The Last Poets,
Guru Guru,
Mr. Review,
Wally Richardson,
Hashim,
Second Layer,
Yellowson,
Eric Copeland,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Byron Stingily,
Mantronix,
Jeru the Damaja,
Black Flag,
Mandrill,
Nils Olav,
Accadde A,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Harmonia,
The Slackers,
The Walker Brothers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gong,
The Sound,
Porter Ricks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sex Pistols,
Hardrive,
Pet Shop Boys,
Charles Mingus,
Smog,
Donald Byrd,
Motorama,
Babytalk,
the Fania All-Stars,
Quando Quango,
Aloha Tigers,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Residents,
Stockholm Monsters,
Heaven 17,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Joy Division,
China Crisis,
Procol Harum,
Junior Murvin,
Althea and Donna,
Moss Icon,
Ralphi Rosario,
Underground Resistance,
Zapp,
Matthew Halsall,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
A Certain Ratio,
Dual Sessions,
Black Bananas,
The Fall,
Scrapy,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.