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 Sweden and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sonic Youth to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Make Up,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joe Smooth,
Young Marble Giants,
Surgeon,
Sarah Menescal,
Suicide,
Anthony Braxton,
Icehouse,
OOIOO,
Matthew Bourne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Colin Newman,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Chris & Cosey,
The Angels of Light,
Scott Walker,
The Young Rascals,
Alphaville,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lou Reed,
JFA,
Tim Buckley,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Joe Finger,
The Barracudas,
China Crisis,
Davy DMX,
Mission of Burma,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Hardrive,
Aural Exciters,
Reagan Youth,
Mars,
Tomorrow,
The Fugs,
The Raincoats,
The Doors,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Hood,
Bad Manners,
Jeff Mills,
Lalo Schifrin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Masters at Work,
New York Dolls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Echospace,
Josef K,
Marshall Jefferson,
Soul II Soul,
Vladislav Delay,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lightning Bolt,
Alton Ellis,
Minor Threat,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.