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 Bahrain and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Soulsonic Force to the rock 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Bizarre Inc.,
Todd Terry,
Animal Collective,
Eric Copeland,
Nils Olav,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Dark Day,
World's Most,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Country Teasers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kurtis Blow,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Blackbyrds,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lower 48,
Sight & Sound,
Parry Music,
The Evens,
Hardrive,
In Retrospect,
Thompson Twins,
The Slits,
Interpol,
Surgeon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Neon Judgement,
Sonic Youth,
Y Pants,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jeru the Damaja,
Robert Görl,
Max Romeo,
Khruangbin,
Janne Schatter,
Easy Going,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agitation Free,
Bill Wells,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Newcleus,
Mission of Burma,
Hashim,
Trumans Water,
The Sonics,
the Normal,
David Bowie,
Avey Tare,
Blancmange,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sun Ra,
CMW,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dawn Penn,
The Knickerbockers,
Can,
Simply Red,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.