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 El Salvador and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 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 Radiohead to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Sugar Minott,
Kayak,
Scientists,
The Five Americans,
The Pretty Things,
Wire,
Marshall Jefferson,
Derrick Morgan,
The Seeds,
Average White Band,
X-102,
Model 500,
Little Man,
The Litter,
Chris & Cosey,
a-ha,
The Real Kids,
Marc Almond,
The Monochrome Set,
Altered Images,
Gang Green,
Metal Thangz,
Lucky Dragons,
Dead Boys,
Jeff Mills,
Sun City Girls,
Visage,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Wyatt,
Erasure,
Anakelly,
Lindisfarne,
Livin' Joy,
Pylon,
Boredoms,
Jimmy McGriff,
Skaos,
Fela Kuti,
KRS-One,
Pantaleimon,
Public Image Ltd.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lower 48,
Tropical Tobacco,
Hasil Adkins,
Flipper,
the Soft Cell,
Hot Snakes,
Japan,
Section 25,
Roxette,
Radio Birdman,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Slackers,
H. Thieme,
New Age Steppers,
Bill Near,
Funkadelic,
Albert Ayler,
Monolake,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.