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 Mali and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin 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 Section 25 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Danielle Patucci,
Bauhaus,
Television Personalities,
Y Pants,
The Slackers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Quando Quango,
10cc,
Jeff Lynne,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Grass Roots,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Bar-Kays,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Nick Fraelich,
The Techniques,
The Invisible,
Carl Craig,
Joensuu 1685,
Zero Boys,
Talk Talk,
Oneida,
Barclay James Harvest,
Khruangbin,
The Velvet Underground,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Deadbeat,
Maleditus Sound,
Fad Gadget,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jimmy McGriff,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lou Christie,
Warren Ellis,
KRS-One,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kool Moe Dee,
Silicon Teens,
Mandrill,
Lyres,
Joyce Sims,
Black Flag,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Tom Boy,
Mary Jane Girls,
The New Christs,
Barry Ungar,
The Angels of Light,
JFA,
Rotary Connection,
Sugar Minott,
the Soft Cell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Patti Smith,
LL Cool J,
Banda Bassotti,
the Germs,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.