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 Eritrea and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Tom Verlaine 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 crunk 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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Schoolly D,
Gang Starr,
Lindisfarne,
One Last Wish,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Smoke,
Davy DMX,
CMW,
Bronski Beat,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Leonard Cohen,
Qualms,
The Electric Prunes,
Roy Ayers,
Public Enemy,
Cecil Taylor,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Steve Hackett,
John Foxx,
Patti Smith,
Scan 7,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Donny Hathaway,
Model 500,
Marcia Griffiths,
Brothers Johnson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Johnny Clarke,
Howard Jones,
Nick Fraelich,
Warsaw,
Moebius,
The Fire Engines,
Yazoo,
Mad Mike,
Visage,
Monolake,
The Gun Club,
Cymande,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bush Tetras,
Marine Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
Sarah Menescal,
Moby Grape,
Suburban Knight,
Ossler,
Grauzone,
Saccharine Trust,
Scion,
AZ,
Dawn Penn,
The Moody Blues,
Kenny Larkin,
Bob Dylan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Siglo XX,
Delon & Dalcan,
Slave,
The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings.
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.