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 the UAE and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum 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 Magma to the rock 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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
The Martian,
Crash Course in Science,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eddi Front,
Television,
Cluster,
New Order,
Cymande,
Masters at Work,
Hashim,
the Association,
AZ,
Oneida,
Matthew Halsall,
Rosa Yemen,
The Sound,
Brass Construction,
Inner City,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Red Krayola,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Peter & Gordon,
Sugar Minott,
Outsiders,
Warsaw,
Model 500,
Black Sheep,
Vladislav Delay,
Lower 48,
Nils Olav,
The Fall,
The Stooges,
Toni Rubio,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Scion,
The American Breed,
The Misunderstood,
Gang Starr,
Rakim,
Average White Band,
Bronski Beat,
Wasted Youth,
One Last Wish,
Little Man,
Brand Nubian,
Sarah Menescal,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Glenn Branca,
David McCallum,
Section 25,
Agent Orange,
the Slits,
Negative Approach,
KRS-One,
Lucky Dragons,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Gap Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Lightning Bolt,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.