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 Portugal and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Fear to the jazz 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Cameo,
Danielle Patucci,
Judy Mowatt,
The Smiths,
Eden Ahbez,
Trumans Water,
The Techniques,
Lebanon Hanover,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Negative Approach,
Animal Collective,
Infiniti,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Görl,
Wally Richardson,
Aswad,
Soft Cell,
Half Japanese,
The Stooges,
The Residents,
Dual Sessions,
Scrapy,
Procol Harum,
Mad Mike,
Q and Not U,
Throbbing Gristle,
Moss Icon,
Drexciya,
The Dirtbombs,
Niagra,
Liliput,
Soul Sonic Force,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Q65,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Black Sheep,
Vladislav Delay,
Ornette Coleman,
Wire,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Derrick May,
The Monks,
Spoonie Gee,
The Last Poets,
Maleditus Sound,
Kevin Saunderson,
Maurizio,
Can,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Byron Stingily,
Banda Bassotti,
Girls At Our Best!,
Arcadia,
Television,
Ken Boothe,
Young Marble Giants,
Duran Duran,
Popol Vuh,
PIL,
U.S. Maple,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.