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 Chile and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 harpsichord 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 The Buckinghams to the funk 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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Mission of Burma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
DNA,
Matthew Halsall,
Amon Düül,
DJ Sneak,
Bauhaus,
World's Most,
Ten City,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lower 48,
Grauzone,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fear,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deakin,
The Star Department,
New Age Steppers,
Monks,
Derrick Morgan,
Tears for Fears,
Roxy Music,
The Move,
Yusef Lateef,
Excepter,
Eden Ahbez,
Traffic Nightmare,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang of Four,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Man Eating Sloth,
New Order,
Franke,
Derrick May,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Radiohead,
Little Man,
Aural Exciters,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eurythmics,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Scratch Acid,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lalann,
Maurizio,
Tres Demented,
Youth Brigade,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Warsaw,
Moebius,
Pagans,
Ultimate Spinach,
Skaos,
Pantaleimon,
Sonic Youth,
H. Thieme,
The Wake,
Audionom,
The Fortunes,
Aswad,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.