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 Chile and from Edmonton.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Busters to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Symarip. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Kerri Chandler,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Gladiators,
In Retrospect,
Kurtis Blow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aural Exciters,
Ronan,
The Raincoats,
Intrusion,
the Normal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ice-T,
Alice Coltrane,
Wasted Youth,
Sex Pistols,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flash Fearless,
Trumans Water,
Quando Quango,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Babytalk,
Anthony Braxton,
Los Fastidios,
Pere Ubu,
Harmonia,
H. Thieme,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Alphaville,
PIL,
Minutemen,
Silicon Teens,
Rekid,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Reagan Youth,
Black Moon,
Ituana,
Iggy Pop,
Dark Day,
Danielle Patucci,
Barrington Levy,
Avey Tare,
Ponytail,
Dual Sessions,
Index,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cheater Slicks,
Yellowson,
Inner City,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Davy DMX,
Toni Rubio,
Rosa Yemen,
Spandau Ballet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Todd Rundgren,
Unwound,
LL Cool J,
Faust,
Y Pants,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.