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 Venezuela and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe 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 Unwound 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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Fugazi,
Hashim,
Reuben Wilson,
Sun City Girls,
K-Klass,
The Neon Judgement,
The Residents,
Desert Stars,
Marshall Jefferson,
Slave,
the Normal,
Alison Limerick,
The Moleskins,
Country Teasers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Archie Shepp,
Loose Ends,
The Walker Brothers,
Lower 48,
Dave Gahan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Kinks,
The Cure,
Surgeon,
Theoretical Girls,
Royal Trux,
Mo-Dettes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Suburban Knight,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nation of Ulysses,
Stockholm Monsters,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Man Eating Sloth,
Tommy Roe,
Stiv Bators,
Roxette,
Unwound,
Ludus,
Porter Ricks,
Funkadelic,
The Pretty Things,
Das Ding,
The Cowsills,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Flash Fearless,
Robert Görl,
Patti Smith,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Qualms,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Swell Maps,
DJ Style,
Camouflage,
Second Layer,
The Martian,
Bill Wells,
The Fire Engines,
Eden Ahbez,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.