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 Iceland and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Scrapy to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Zero Boys,
Funkadelic,
EPMD,
The Victims,
Jandek,
Brand Nubian,
Scientists,
Glenn Branca,
Graham Central Station,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ohio Players,
Dave Gahan,
Talk Talk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fire Engines,
Aloha Tigers,
the Sonics,
Icehouse,
Yaz,
Kaleidoscope,
Angry Samoans,
Unrelated Segments,
MC5,
Mary Jane Girls,
Magazine,
The Seeds,
The Young Rascals,
In Retrospect,
Hashim,
Danielle Patucci,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Joey Negro,
Scratch Acid,
Bad Manners,
The Index,
Country Joe & The Fish,
E-Dancer,
New Age Steppers,
Sarah Menescal,
The Invisible,
Moss Icon,
Pussy Galore,
Harmonia,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Aswad,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eve St. Jones,
New Order,
Altered Images,
Chris & Cosey,
the Normal,
Country Teasers,
The Blackbyrds,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Remains,
Average White Band,
Flash Fearless,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.