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 Hungary and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Schoolly D to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ten City,
Half Japanese,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Soulsonic Force,
Throbbing Gristle,
Glenn Branca,
This Heat,
Franke,
Matthew Bourne,
Pantaleimon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Crash Course in Science,
Easy Going,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Last Poets,
Scion,
Robert Görl,
Robert Wyatt,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dark Day,
Q65,
Kevin Saunderson,
Animal Collective,
Radiopuhelimet,
New Order,
ABBA,
UT,
Spandau Ballet,
Organ,
Hasil Adkins,
China Crisis,
The Fuzztones,
Gabor Szabo,
Gang Starr,
the Germs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rosa Yemen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
L. Decosne,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Fortunes,
Excepter,
Soul II Soul,
Bootsy Collins,
Kurtis Blow,
Suburban Knight,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scott Walker,
Japan,
K-Klass,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Country Teasers,
Intrusion,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Barracudas,
Pulsallama,
Terrestrial Tones,
X-Ray Spex,
Public Image Ltd.,
Janne Schatter,
The Tremeloes,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.