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 Uzbekistan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 clarinet 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 Crispy Ambulance to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
The Golliwogs,
Sarah Menescal,
Laurel Aitken,
Warsaw,
Isaac Hayes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Television Personalities,
Visage,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wings,
Soft Cell,
Derrick Morgan,
Slick Rick,
Robert Hood,
The Blackbyrds,
Soft Machine,
Slave,
Neil Young,
Spoonie Gee,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wire,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Leonard Cohen,
The Offenders,
Erykah Badu,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Skarface,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Knickerbockers,
Basic Channel,
ABC,
Soulsonic Force,
Charles Mingus,
Darondo,
A Certain Ratio,
Bobby Byrd,
Symarip,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Yellowson,
Sight & Sound,
The Cure,
Parry Music,
Jandek,
Johnny Clarke,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fall,
Cheater Slicks,
Icehouse,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kenny Larkin,
Reuben Wilson,
Zapp,
The Five Americans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Mojo Men,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ten City,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.