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 Nepal and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Brick to the punk 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Victims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
The Walker Brothers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Terrestrial Tones,
Tubeway Army,
Susan Cadogan,
AZ,
Kas Product,
Echospace,
Soul II Soul,
Chris & Cosey,
Anakelly,
Fatback Band,
Ossler,
Sixth Finger,
Funkadelic,
The Smiths,
Surgeon,
Robert Hood,
Sonic Youth,
The Angels of Light,
Niagra,
The Pop Group,
The Blues Magoos,
The Five Americans,
The Skatalites,
Bootsy Collins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cybotron,
The Vogues,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Monks,
Idris Muhammad,
Pole,
Crime,
Bobby Sherman,
Agitation Free,
The Electric Prunes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Donny Hathaway,
Nils Olav,
Fela Kuti,
The Young Rascals,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dorothy Ashby,
World's Most,
Brothers Johnson,
Jerry's Kids,
The Dead C,
Amon Düül,
Eddi Front,
Altered Images,
Cameo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Leaves,
Mantronix,
Bill Wells,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Flash Fearless,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.