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 Kazakhstan and from Calgary.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Underground Resistance to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Radiopuhelimet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Porter Ricks,
Morten Harket,
The Young Rascals,
Pere Ubu,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jawbox,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Franke,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
New Order,
Dual Sessions,
Eden Ahbez,
Wolf Eyes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Monochrome Set,
Barrington Levy,
The Wake,
Pierre Henry,
Glenn Branca,
The Slackers,
E-Dancer,
Barbara Tucker,
Harpers Bizarre,
Suicide,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
China Crisis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dorothy Ashby,
Grauzone,
Susan Cadogan,
La Düsseldorf,
Gang of Four,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Offenders,
These Immortal Souls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Saccharine Trust,
Faust,
The Tremeloes,
Black Sheep,
kango's stein massive,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Sisters of Mercy,
ABBA,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gil Scott Heron,
10cc,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cheater Slicks,
Dave Gahan,
Roy Ayers,
Charles Mingus,
Janne Schatter,
Sun Ra,
Underground Resistance,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.