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 Guinea and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Maurizio to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen 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 grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe 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?
Ludus,
Livin' Joy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lakeside,
Q and Not U,
Sexual Harrassment,
Scott Walker,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Glenn Branca,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fall,
Underground Resistance,
Josef K,
Lightning Bolt,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joe Finger,
Max Romeo,
Gang of Four,
The Young Rascals,
Section 25,
Althea and Donna,
Kurtis Blow,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pulsallama,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Second Layer,
Bush Tetras,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Knickerbockers,
AZ,
Main Source,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Johnny Clarke,
Stereo Dub,
Maleditus Sound,
Yaz,
Shoche,
Metal Thangz,
The Sonics,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Normal,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Index,
Masters at Work,
F. McDonald,
The Count Five,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Iggy Pop,
Erykah Badu,
Rosa Yemen,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joe Smooth,
Von Mondo,
Leonard Cohen,
Jeff Mills,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Alison Limerick,
Unrelated Segments,
KRS-One,
Ornette Coleman,
Lou Christie,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.