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 Canada and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 John Coltrane to the grime 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Panda Bear,
The Blues Magoos,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ornette Coleman,
Michelle Simonal,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
the Sonics,
Interpol,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Pretty Things,
Talk Talk,
the Association,
The Dirtbombs,
Ludus,
Quantec,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lightning Bolt,
The Gladiators,
DJ Style,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Brick,
Matthew Bourne,
Organ,
Maurizio,
Motorama,
The Fugs,
Unwound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skaos,
Barry Ungar,
Young Marble Giants,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Yusef Lateef,
Massinfluence,
Lalo Schifrin,
Drexciya,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tres Demented,
Alison Limerick,
Pylon,
Joey Negro,
Peter and Kerry,
Harmonia,
Arthur Verocai,
The Fall,
Matthew Halsall,
Scrapy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Reagan Youth,
The Black Dice,
Tommy Roe,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Skarface,
Sandy B,
Con Funk Shun,
Terry Callier,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Derrick May,
The Slackers,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.