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 Liberia and from Taipei.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 ABBA 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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Smog,
Adolescents,
Television Personalities,
The Seeds,
PIL,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lou Christie,
The Five Americans,
Country Teasers,
Lalo Schifrin,
ABC,
The United States of America,
The Leaves,
Black Sheep,
Stereo Dub,
Massinfluence,
In Retrospect,
Shoche,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sound Behaviour,
Bob Dylan,
48th St. Collective,
Avey Tare,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Doobie Brothers,
Swell Maps,
Second Layer,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kenny Larkin,
Hasil Adkins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Liliput,
Fad Gadget,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Smoke,
Interpol,
Bluetip,
Livin' Joy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Leonard Cohen,
Hoover,
Ice-T,
Cal Tjader,
Essential Logic,
Pantytec,
The New Christs,
Basic Channel,
Tommy Roe,
Procol Harum,
Lakeside,
Al Stewart,
The Litter,
Bootsy Collins,
Severed Heads,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Golliwogs,
Stiv Bators,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.