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 Estonia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Tim Buckley to the funk 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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
The Knickerbockers,
Faraquet,
Gang Starr,
The Moleskins,
Agent Orange,
In Retrospect,
The Alarm Clocks,
John Coltrane,
Wasted Youth,
Bluetip,
Fatback Band,
David Bowie,
Massinfluence,
Bobby Sherman,
Camberwell Now,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jimmy McGriff,
John Lydon,
Ten City,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Normal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sällskapet,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Porter Ricks,
The Dead C,
Mars,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Fania All-Stars,
Icehouse,
Joey Negro,
Ponytail,
Deepchord,
MC5,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jawbox,
Pagans,
Minny Pops,
Roy Ayers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ornette Coleman,
Q and Not U,
Flash Fearless,
Alison Limerick,
Eddi Front,
Dead Boys,
Skarface,
June of 44,
The Selecter,
Rotary Connection,
The Techniques,
Magma,
X-101,
Model 500,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Heaven 17,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
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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.