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 Chad and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rhythm & Sound to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Aural Exciters,
The Wake,
Alison Limerick,
Eric Dolphy,
Spoonie Gee,
The Beau Brummels,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dennis Brown,
Avey Tare,
Thee Headcoats,
Ultravox,
Supertramp,
The Birthday Party,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Don Cherry,
Aswad,
Bad Manners,
Chris & Cosey,
Ornette Coleman,
Maleditus Sound,
Arcadia,
Kenny Larkin,
Stereo Dub,
Sam Rivers,
Derrick Morgan,
Tres Demented,
Khruangbin,
the Bar-Kays,
Mo-Dettes,
Y Pants,
The Saints,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nirvana,
Bill Wells,
Chrome,
Harmonia,
New York Dolls,
Warsaw,
Drive Like Jehu,
Essential Logic,
The Seeds,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Goldenarms,
La Düsseldorf,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Toasters,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Electric Prunes,
Duran Duran,
Yaz,
X-Ray Spex,
Colin Newman,
The Doors,
Soulsonic Force,
Deepchord,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.