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 Kiribati and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
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 mellotron 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 Interpol to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ronan,
Harmonia,
Underground Resistance,
Crash Course in Science,
The Sonics,
Sandy B,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bronski Beat,
Joyce Sims,
Radiohead,
Scan 7,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Danielle Patucci,
the Slits,
Amon Düül II,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Soft Cell,
Gang Starr,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Don Cherry,
Bobby Sherman,
Funky Four + One,
Ultra Naté,
Section 25,
8 Eyed Spy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Warren Ellis,
R.M.O.,
Moby Grape,
Ponytail,
Faraquet,
Tubeway Army,
Aloha Tigers,
Dave Gahan,
Das Ding,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Zero Boys,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sun City Girls,
Ten City,
Vainqueur,
John Lydon,
Bush Tetras,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Throbbing Gristle,
Derrick May,
The Pretty Things,
Roxette,
Sound Behaviour,
Slave,
Godley & Creme,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Josef K,
The Happenings,
The Mojo Men,
the Bar-Kays,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Fugazi,
Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling.
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.