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 Israel and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 marimba 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 Terry Callier to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
The Star Department,
The Mojo Men,
The Toasters,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Minor Threat,
Livin' Joy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sonic Youth,
The Fortunes,
Surgeon,
cv313,
Eli Mardock,
Kas Product,
Hashim,
Lungfish,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Colin Newman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Connie Case,
The Litter,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Warren Ellis,
Deadbeat,
New York Dolls,
Gang of Four,
Banda Bassotti,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Reed,
Lou Christie,
The Monks,
Moebius,
Crispy Ambulance,
X-Ray Spex,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Glenn Branca,
China Crisis,
Talk Talk,
kango's stein massive,
Ohio Players,
Symarip,
The Grass Roots,
The Velvet Underground,
Leonard Cohen,
The Fugs,
Black Pus,
Nick Fraelich,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soft Cell,
Flash Fearless,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Eurythmics,
Junior Murvin,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Magma,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rapeman,
MC5,
Stereo Dub,
The Slackers,
Gichy Dan,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.