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 Singapore and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manila.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Iggy Pop to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
The Music Machine,
Can,
The Selecter,
the Slits,
Matthew Bourne,
The Modern Lovers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ronan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Siglo XX,
Neil Young,
Brick,
Lakeside,
Josef K,
The Dirtbombs,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Excepter,
The Fugs,
Terrestrial Tones,
Archie Shepp,
B.T. Express,
Ronnie Foster,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Coltrane,
Young Marble Giants,
Spoonie Gee,
Popol Vuh,
Crispy Ambulance,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Blackbyrds,
Roger Hodgson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
World's Most,
Los Fastidios,
The Seeds,
Pere Ubu,
Fear,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Gories,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Associates,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Fat Boys,
Minny Pops,
Sonic Youth,
Rapeman,
48th St. Collective,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Easy Going,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.