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 Sudan and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Tom Verlaine 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 grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joyce Sims,
James White and The Blacks,
Sound Behaviour,
Angry Samoans,
Main Source,
Skarface,
X-102,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Cowsills,
Index,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fear,
Suburban Knight,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Piero Umiliani,
The Black Dice,
Bill Near,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
MC5,
Babytalk,
Skriet,
DJ Style,
Lightning Bolt,
Wire,
Susan Cadogan,
The Five Americans,
John Foxx,
Livin' Joy,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Monks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Names,
Newcleus,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Associates,
Eve St. Jones,
8 Eyed Spy,
Youth Brigade,
Dennis Brown,
Hashim,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Letta Mbulu,
Rod Modell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Groovy Waters,
The Fall,
Delta 5,
Scratch Acid,
Glenn Branca,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Camberwell Now,
Arthur Verocai,
Aloha Tigers,
Bootsy Collins,
Dave Gahan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lungfish,
Wolf Eyes,
Rekid,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.