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 Bolivia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 clarinet 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 The Sonics to the grunge 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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
L. Decosne,
Aaron Thompson,
A Certain Ratio,
New Order,
Sonic Youth,
DJ Style,
The Five Americans,
Basic Channel,
Rakim,
Skarface,
Rod Modell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Anakelly,
Scratch Acid,
Eric Dolphy,
Gerry Rafferty,
Donny Hathaway,
Mission of Burma,
Young Marble Giants,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kerri Chandler,
Brick,
ABBA,
The Busters,
Brand Nubian,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Knickerbockers,
Hashim,
Hasil Adkins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lower 48,
the Fania All-Stars,
Amon Düül,
The Fall,
Underground Resistance,
Theoretical Girls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Soul II Soul,
Tubeway Army,
Cal Tjader,
Warren Ellis,
Tears for Fears,
Con Funk Shun,
Yusef Lateef,
a-ha,
Aural Exciters,
Curtis Mayfield,
FM Einheit,
Man Parrish,
Albert Ayler,
the Human League,
Amazonics,
The Pop Group,
The Misunderstood,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
B.T. Express,
Marine Girls,
Carl Craig,
Sällskapet,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ponytail,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.