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 Sierra Leone and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Agent Orange to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Stooges,
Gastr Del Sol,
Swans,
The Dead C,
Dual Sessions,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kaleidoscope,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang of Four,
Quadrant,
John Cale,
F. McDonald,
John Coltrane,
Colin Newman,
Deakin,
Lakeside,
Cal Tjader,
The Invisible,
Jeru the Damaja,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Mummies,
Peter & Gordon,
Altered Images,
Grey Daturas,
The Dirtbombs,
Royal Trux,
Jesper Dahlback,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lou Christie,
Chrome,
Nick Fraelich,
Eric B and Rakim,
David McCallum,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bush Tetras,
The Moody Blues,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Model 500,
Rotary Connection,
Don Cherry,
Nation of Ulysses,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dark Day,
Nik Kershaw,
The Neon Judgement,
Vladislav Delay,
Dead Boys,
James White and The Blacks,
Massinfluence,
The Mojo Men,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gregory Isaacs,
Davy DMX,
Absolute Body Control,
the Normal,
Depeche Mode,
Toni Rubio,
Connie Case,
Television,
Lucky Dragons,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.