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 Cameroon and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sound Behaviour to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
Matthew Bourne,
Animal Collective,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rufus Thomas,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nirvana,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wolf Eyes,
FM Einheit,
Brothers Johnson,
Ultravox,
Babytalk,
Bobby Byrd,
Idris Muhammad,
Accadde A,
John Coltrane,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
B.T. Express,
The Invisible,
Adolescents,
Blancmange,
Zero Boys,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kevin Saunderson,
Toni Rubio,
Camberwell Now,
Duran Duran,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lakeside,
The Raincoats,
Pulsallama,
Laurel Aitken,
8 Eyed Spy,
Unwound,
The Fuzztones,
Au Pairs,
The Count Five,
Technova,
Ludus,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Barrington Levy,
Livin' Joy,
Nas,
Schoolly D,
Amazonics,
John Foxx,
Circle Jerks,
The Offenders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oblivians,
Rekid,
Pylon,
Derrick May,
Mandrill,
June Days,
Jerry's Kids,
Arab on Radar,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.