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 Denmark and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 The Busters to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Velvet Underground,
Erasure,
Jacob Miller,
Funkadelic,
Chris Corsano,
The Searchers,
L. Decosne,
June of 44,
Pantaleimon,
Silicon Teens,
Sun Ra,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Bar-Kays,
Livin' Joy,
MDC,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
X-102,
Blancmange,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kenny Larkin,
Duran Duran,
Traffic Nightmare,
Nick Fraelich,
Sarah Menescal,
The Slackers,
Boredoms,
Bobby Sherman,
The Knickerbockers,
Pagans,
Stereo Dub,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Tremeloes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Maleditus Sound,
Charles Mingus,
Procol Harum,
Barrington Levy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Morten Harket,
Groovy Waters,
Model 500,
The Move,
Isaac Hayes,
Rites of Spring,
cv313,
Fear,
Man Eating Sloth,
Deakin,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Neil Young,
kango's stein massive,
La Düsseldorf,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marc Almond,
Easy Going,
Porter Ricks,
John Foxx,
Swell Maps,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lucky Dragons,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.