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 Korea North and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 linndrum 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 Mojo Men to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tomorrow,
R.M.O.,
Funky Four + One,
Kenny Larkin,
Von Mondo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Pretty Things,
Dead Boys,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Fugs,
Lou Reed,
Gong,
Eli Mardock,
Dorothy Ashby,
Inner City,
Public Image Ltd.,
Little Man,
Agitation Free,
John Holt,
Matthew Halsall,
LL Cool J,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scrapy,
Spoonie Gee,
The Vogues,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eden Ahbez,
Glenn Branca,
Robert Wyatt,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sun City Girls,
Young Marble Giants,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fad Gadget,
Scientists,
The Knickerbockers,
Suicide,
The Young Rascals,
The Evens,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
New Age Steppers,
Minnie Riperton,
Gang of Four,
The Blues Magoos,
Kaleidoscope,
Delon & Dalcan,
Alison Limerick,
Hardrive,
Jerry's Kids,
The Residents,
David McCallum,
Toni Rubio,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Dead C,
Lee Hazlewood,
David Bowie,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.