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 Barbados and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Sonic Youth to the disco 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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
R.M.O.,
Essential Logic,
Aural Exciters,
The Busters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barbara Tucker,
The Trojans,
Black Flag,
The Blues Magoos,
Max Romeo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Minor Threat,
Roxette,
Soft Machine,
kango's stein massive,
Darondo,
Sarah Menescal,
Zero Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gap Band,
John Foxx,
Mr. Review,
Simply Red,
Quantec,
The Sonics,
Arcadia,
Steve Hackett,
Alphaville,
Terry Callier,
U.S. Maple,
Magazine,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Adolescents,
Man Eating Sloth,
DJ Sneak,
Subhumans,
Flipper,
Public Image Ltd.,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jeru the Damaja,
Wire,
Tears for Fears,
Underground Resistance,
Shoche,
cv313,
Groovy Waters,
Joy Division,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sight & Sound,
H. Thieme,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jawbox,
Gichy Dan,
Rekid,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.