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 Belarus and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pole to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Oneida,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Andrew Hill,
DJ Style,
Neu!,
Yaz,
The Zeros,
Bootsy Collins,
Mark Hollis,
Juan Atkins,
Technova,
The Happenings,
John Lydon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Albert Ayler,
Brothers Johnson,
Lalann,
In Retrospect,
Matthew Halsall,
Gang Starr,
The Dirtbombs,
Gang Green,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Music Machine,
Nirvana,
Spandau Ballet,
Pierre Henry,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Monochrome Set,
Harmonia,
Marmalade,
Mo-Dettes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Banda Bassotti,
The Fall,
Swans,
The Real Kids,
Ohio Players,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Soft Cell,
Jesper Dahlback,
Thompson Twins,
Khruangbin,
Michelle Simonal,
The Busters,
Eden Ahbez,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Star Department,
The Flesh Eaters,
the Association,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Main Source,
Byron Stingily,
The Velvet Underground,
ABC,
Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen.
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.