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 Malta and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tropical Tobacco to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Wolf Eyes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
D'Angelo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bad Manners,
Agent Orange,
Average White Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Infiniti,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lightning Bolt,
Crime,
The Slits,
Peter & Gordon,
The Cure,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Television Personalities,
Drexciya,
Derrick Morgan,
FM Einheit,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pantaleimon,
Wolf Eyes,
Gang Starr,
Con Funk Shun,
Robert Hood,
Dead Boys,
Bluetip,
The Litter,
Aaron Thompson,
The Gap Band,
Scientists,
Laurel Aitken,
Subhumans,
The Mummies,
Yaz,
Eddi Front,
Joensuu 1685,
Underground Resistance,
The Music Machine,
The Durutti Column,
Ice-T,
Barbara Tucker,
New Age Steppers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Brass Construction,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Associates,
The Leaves,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Surgeon,
Darondo,
The Gladiators,
Bill Wells,
Throbbing Gristle,
China Crisis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minnie Riperton,
Bush Tetras,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.