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 Comoros and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 oboe 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 Joe Smooth to the rock 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Sugar Minott,
Joyce Sims,
Dave Gahan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Cluster,
Angry Samoans,
Kas Product,
Mo-Dettes,
Smog,
Marvin Gaye,
Roxette,
The Zeros,
Joe Smooth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sound Behaviour,
Qualms,
The Dave Clark Five,
Metal Thangz,
Silicon Teens,
The United States of America,
Lucky Dragons,
cv313,
Whodini,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lalann,
Adolescents,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Magma,
Blossom Toes,
The Tremeloes,
Camouflage,
Quadrant,
Johnny Clarke,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Schoolly D,
Davy DMX,
James White and The Blacks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Janne Schatter,
Ossler,
Marcia Griffiths,
Audionom,
The Golliwogs,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
OOIOO,
Bad Manners,
Grauzone,
DJ Sneak,
Jawbox,
The Leaves,
Connie Case,
The Trojans,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Radiohead,
Lalo Schifrin,
Urselle,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sarah Menescal,
Fluxion,
The Toasters,
48th St. Collective,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.