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 Malta and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 DNA to the disco 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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glambeats Corp. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smoke,
Sonic Youth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Gun Club,
Hashim,
Gang Gang Dance,
Susan Cadogan,
Deepchord,
The Neon Judgement,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Names,
Swell Maps,
10cc,
FM Einheit,
Khruangbin,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
New York Dolls,
The Mojo Men,
Funky Four + One,
Avey Tare,
Ken Boothe,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Swans,
Hardrive,
Mr. Review,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Whodini,
Aural Exciters,
The Blackbyrds,
Reuben Wilson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Subhumans,
Mo-Dettes,
Piero Umiliani,
Magma,
Surgeon,
Sound Behaviour,
Todd Terry,
Essential Logic,
The United States of America,
Dawn Penn,
The Victims,
Bad Manners,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lindisfarne,
Ultra Naté,
Delon & Dalcan,
Maurizio,
The Angels of Light,
Soft Cell,
Marvin Gaye,
Vainqueur,
The Pop Group,
Public Image Ltd.,
Second Layer,
Moss Icon,
Minor Threat,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.