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 Latvia and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lucky Dragons to the jazz 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mr. Review record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drexciya,
Morten Harket,
Ronan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dave Clark Five,
DJ Sneak,
Deepchord,
John Cale,
Hasil Adkins,
R.M.O.,
The J.B.'s,
Robert Wyatt,
Flamin' Groovies,
Essential Logic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scion,
Bluetip,
Cameo,
Motorama,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Gories,
B.T. Express,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Qualms,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Terry Callier,
Shoche,
a-ha,
Theoretical Girls,
One Last Wish,
Susan Cadogan,
Lyres,
Bill Near,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ponytail,
The Residents,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
kango's stein massive,
Rotary Connection,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Radiohead,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Das Ding,
Todd Rundgren,
Amon Düül II,
Johnny Osbourne,
Yazoo,
Von Mondo,
The Smoke,
CMW,
Blake Baxter,
Section 25,
DJ Style,
Sarah Menescal,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ultra Naté,
Lalo Schifrin,
Urselle,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.