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 Romania and from Mumbai.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Grandmaster Flash to the electroclash 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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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 Names,
Country Teasers,
ABC,
Nils Olav,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joy Division,
The Gladiators,
Sex Pistols,
ABBA,
Neil Young,
Deakin,
Unwound,
The Real Kids,
Roxette,
OOIOO,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The J.B.'s,
Gerry Rafferty,
Mandrill,
The Electric Prunes,
U.S. Maple,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Reagan Youth,
Monolake,
Warren Ellis,
Archie Shepp,
Das Ding,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Laurel Aitken,
Quadrant,
Rod Modell,
Morten Harket,
Inner City,
Fad Gadget,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Steve Hackett,
Donny Hathaway,
It's A Beautiful Day,
James White and The Blacks,
Mo-Dettes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gil Scott Heron,
Average White Band,
The Human League,
Lalann,
Amon Düül,
The Mighty Diamonds,
X-101,
Stetsasonic,
Kerri Chandler,
Grandmaster Flash,
Connie Case,
Cameo,
Moebius,
Loose Ends,
Chris & Cosey,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.