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 France and from New York.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar 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 Oneida to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
the Soft Cell,
Pharoah Sanders,
Audionom,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Talk Talk,
Grauzone,
The Cowsills,
KRS-One,
OOIOO,
Aaron Thompson,
Jandek,
The Index,
PIL,
Rhythm & Sound,
Soft Cell,
Rakim,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Steve Hackett,
Lucky Dragons,
Animal Collective,
Reuben Wilson,
The Neon Judgement,
The Searchers,
B.T. Express,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Absolute Body Control,
Bobby Womack,
The Doors,
The Toasters,
10cc,
The Pop Group,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Modern Lovers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Tremeloes,
Sixth Finger,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lightning Bolt,
Jeff Mills,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Smoke,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lalann,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Smog,
Warren Ellis,
Prince Buster,
Alison Limerick,
The Kinks,
The Red Krayola,
Joe Finger,
Sight & Sound,
Donny Hathaway,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Crooked Eye,
Essential Logic,
Kaleidoscope,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.