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 Cambodia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Invisible to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fuzztones,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sparks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Derrick Morgan,
Pierre Henry,
Sarah Menescal,
Bootsy Collins,
Qualms,
Heaven 17,
Alton Ellis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young,
Pagans,
Cecil Taylor,
Jawbox,
The Raincoats,
Excepter,
Tears for Fears,
Soul II Soul,
The Velvet Underground,
Kas Product,
The Doobie Brothers,
X-Ray Spex,
Skriet,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Banda Bassotti,
Sex Pistols,
Groovy Waters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Second Layer,
Rhythm & Sound,
Aural Exciters,
Barry Ungar,
Deadbeat,
Gong,
John Foxx,
Harpers Bizarre,
Danielle Patucci,
Saccharine Trust,
The Blues Magoos,
Idris Muhammad,
Fela Kuti,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T.S.O.L.,
Boz Scaggs,
Half Japanese,
Barbara Tucker,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Todd Terry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Alarm Clocks,
Con Funk Shun,
Moby Grape,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Lydon,
Gang Starr,
Pole,
Rufus Thomas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.