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 Azerbaijan and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 mellotron 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 Jandek to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gichy Dan,
Essential Logic,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Moleskins,
Mission of Burma,
Sun Ra,
Grauzone,
Chrome,
Arcadia,
The Move,
World's Most,
Jacob Miller,
Cluster,
The Modern Lovers,
Funky Four + One,
Sister Nancy,
David Axelrod,
Eden Ahbez,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Warren Ellis,
Heaven 17,
Morten Harket,
Amon Düül,
Radiohead,
Flash Fearless,
Lyres,
Gil Scott Heron,
Underground Resistance,
The Monochrome Set,
Barbara Tucker,
Fugazi,
Graham Central Station,
The Human League,
Eddi Front,
Todd Terry,
Can,
These Immortal Souls,
Aloha Tigers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Association,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Johnny Osbourne,
Todd Rundgren,
Danielle Patucci,
cv313,
Ronan,
Skarface,
Lalann,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sandy B,
Sound Behaviour,
Mr. Review,
Barry Ungar,
Roxy Music,
The United States of America,
Connie Case,
Minutemen,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.