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 Syria and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin 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 The Motions to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tim Buckley,
The Grass Roots,
Schoolly D,
Marine Girls,
Marc Almond,
Clear Light,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lucky Dragons,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jandek,
Young Marble Giants,
Inner City,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Public Image Ltd.,
Absolute Body Control,
Easy Going,
Letta Mbulu,
Lou Christie,
Howard Jones,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nas,
Infiniti,
Simply Red,
Technova,
John Holt,
Bobby Byrd,
The Happenings,
Maleditus Sound,
Rotary Connection,
Matthew Halsall,
Mary Jane Girls,
Organ,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Panda Bear,
CMW,
Byron Stingily,
Boogie Down Productions,
48th St. Collective,
Sparks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Blancmange,
KRS-One,
Gang Green,
R.M.O.,
Scan 7,
Procol Harum,
Sister Nancy,
Brand Nubian,
Marmalade,
The American Breed,
Harry Pussy,
Mr. Review,
Q and Not U,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Black Moon,
Average White Band,
Soul II Soul,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.