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 Gabon 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin 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 Vladislav Delay to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Throbbing Gristle,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
FM Einheit,
Minor Threat,
The Misunderstood,
Carl Craig,
Jacob Miller,
Tim Buckley,
Sun City Girls,
Flipper,
Todd Rundgren,
Maurizio,
The Raincoats,
Jacques Brel,
Absolute Body Control,
Trumans Water,
Arcadia,
Brick,
Bang On A Can,
Kas Product,
Derrick Morgan,
Hardrive,
The Associates,
Siglo XX,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Invisible,
The Neon Judgement,
The Leaves,
Minny Pops,
Saccharine Trust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Half Japanese,
Arthur Verocai,
The Smiths,
Brothers Johnson,
Banda Bassotti,
Wings,
Kurtis Blow,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
This Heat,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Deakin,
Morten Harket,
The Sound,
Main Source,
Bobbi Humphrey,
EPMD,
John Cale,
Bob Dylan,
Matthew Bourne,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
DJ Sneak,
The Grass Roots,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Count Five,
Parry Music,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.