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 Comoros and from Accra.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Mummies to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Au Pairs,
Television Personalities,
Model 500,
Bob Dylan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Vogues,
The Neon Judgement,
Bobby Byrd,
Deadbeat,
Big Daddy Kane,
Whodini,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eric B and Rakim,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
La Düsseldorf,
Magma,
Suburban Knight,
Gichy Dan,
Zero Boys,
Electric Prunes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Minutemen,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arcadia,
World's Most,
Japan,
Minor Threat,
Dave Gahan,
Arab on Radar,
Scratch Acid,
Massinfluence,
Q65,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brass Construction,
Altered Images,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cheater Slicks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Moby Grape,
Howard Jones,
Vainqueur,
Lyres,
Cameo,
Duran Duran,
Dennis Brown,
Second Layer,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scan 7,
Nils Olav,
D'Angelo,
Masters at Work,
the Germs,
JFA,
Prince Buster,
The Busters,
Mark Hollis,
Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gang of Four,
Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics.
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.