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 Burkina and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro 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 the Normal to the disco 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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Iggy Pop record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eden Ahbez,
New York Dolls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
In Retrospect,
The Last Poets,
The Music Machine,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Germs,
Prince Buster,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sister Nancy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Liliput,
China Crisis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
June of 44,
Quantec,
Sun Ra,
John Holt,
The Dave Clark Five,
Soft Cell,
The Remains,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Barrington Levy,
The Smiths,
Al Stewart,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Alphaville,
Gichy Dan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kayak,
the Bar-Kays,
Negative Approach,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Sonics,
The Associates,
Darondo,
Ken Boothe,
Oblivians,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ohio Players,
Outsiders,
Scan 7,
Second Layer,
The Star Department,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Flipper,
Pole,
Aloha Tigers,
Leonard Cohen,
Animal Collective,
The Slits,
Sandy B,
Moss Icon,
Bluetip,
Tim Buckley,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Alton Ellis,
The Five Americans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.