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 Vanuatu and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Animal Collective,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Essential Logic,
Juan Atkins,
Banda Bassotti,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Cramps,
John Coltrane,
The Doors,
Y Pants,
Rites of Spring,
Amon Düül,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jeff Mills,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Real Kids,
Wally Richardson,
Moby Grape,
Ronan,
Matthew Bourne,
Deakin,
Lalo Schifrin,
Minutemen,
Pere Ubu,
Robert Görl,
Ultravox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mary Jane Girls,
Popol Vuh,
Ituana,
The Count Five,
The Young Rascals,
Amon Düül II,
Crooked Eye,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kevin Saunderson,
Blancmange,
Organ,
World's Most,
Man Eating Sloth,
Mantronix,
Harmonia,
Intrusion,
PIL,
Aural Exciters,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Victims,
Black Moon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DJ Sneak,
Rekid,
Vladislav Delay,
Kaleidoscope,
The Offenders,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Laurel Aitken,
Eddi Front,
Sarah Menescal,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.