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 San Marino and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Leaves to the rock 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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wolf Eyes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
Kenny Larkin,
Sällskapet,
The Buckinghams,
Rotary Connection,
The Residents,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jerry's Kids,
The Standells,
Michelle Simonal,
Ronan,
Hot Snakes,
Yusef Lateef,
Howard Jones,
Eric Dolphy,
Trumans Water,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gabor Szabo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Harry Pussy,
H. Thieme,
Shuggie Otis,
Eden Ahbez,
Nirvana,
The Red Krayola,
Scan 7,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Music Machine,
The Monochrome Set,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Stooges,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Kinks,
Urselle,
Hoover,
Q and Not U,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Minor Threat,
Marmalade,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Busters,
Deepchord,
Spoonie Gee,
Tom Boy,
Average White Band,
Public Enemy,
Lalann,
Eric Copeland,
Rhythm & Sound,
Technova,
The Dead C,
Connie Case,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cal Tjader,
Groovy Waters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Barrington Levy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.