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 Lebanon and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Lou Reed 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 Frankie Knuckles 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Jacob Miller,
Fatback Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Index,
Brass Construction,
Sonic Youth,
The Blues Magoos,
Joe Finger,
The J.B.'s,
Michelle Simonal,
Laurel Aitken,
Blancmange,
Stereo Dub,
The Neon Judgement,
Bauhaus,
Donny Hathaway,
Model 500,
Black Bananas,
Pharoah Sanders,
EPMD,
Subhumans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Erykah Badu,
Metal Thangz,
Youth Brigade,
The Zeros,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Stetsasonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Human League,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sun Ra,
Marc Almond,
The United States of America,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Freddie Wadling,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Electric Prunes,
Glenn Branca,
Second Layer,
The Doobie Brothers,
X-102,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Swans,
Iggy Pop,
Thompson Twins,
Goldenarms,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Busters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Motions,
Cheater Slicks,
The New Christs,
the Sonics,
Kaleidoscope,
a-ha,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pere Ubu,
Jacques Brel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.