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 Comoros and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 oboe 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 cv313 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Scan 7,
Audionom,
Janne Schatter,
T.S.O.L.,
the Normal,
Sonny Sharrock,
Robert Hood,
Theoretical Girls,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Niagra,
Nas,
Rites of Spring,
Colin Newman,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Banda Bassotti,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Black Dice,
Aural Exciters,
Yusef Lateef,
The Selecter,
Moebius,
Delon & Dalcan,
Robert Wyatt,
The Monks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jerry's Kids,
Wings,
The Moody Blues,
Electric Prunes,
Pierre Henry,
Crime,
Patti Smith,
June of 44,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sparks,
Can,
Little Man,
Charles Mingus,
Dawn Penn,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ultimate Spinach,
Danielle Patucci,
New Age Steppers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Terrestrial Tones,
Boogie Down Productions,
OOIOO,
Juan Atkins,
Byron Stingily,
Organ,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Human League,
Erasure,
Kaleidoscope,
The Vogues,
Unwound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.