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 Romania and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro 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 techno 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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
The Real Kids,
Circle Jerks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Young Marble Giants,
Wings,
Lou Christie,
Warren Ellis,
Todd Terry,
Rhythm & Sound,
DNA,
Pantaleimon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kaleidoscope,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nik Kershaw,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Thee Headcoats,
EPMD,
Rekid,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Iggy Pop,
Morten Harket,
Buzzcocks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Terry Callier,
The Smiths,
Funky Four + One,
Von Mondo,
AZ,
Aural Exciters,
Connie Case,
The Zeros,
Altered Images,
Gabor Szabo,
Crooked Eye,
Cecil Taylor,
Dark Day,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Seeds,
Theoretical Girls,
Radiohead,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Infiniti,
The Mojo Men,
Scan 7,
Zapp,
The Evens,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Sonics,
Desert Stars,
Bronski Beat,
June Days,
Icehouse,
The Residents,
The Misunderstood,
The Busters,
Tomorrow,
Lakeside,
the Slits,
Glenn Branca,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.