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 Andorra and from Woodstock.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 synthesizer 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 Lou Reed to the electroclash 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 Harpers Bizarre. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Niagra,
The Evens,
Negative Approach,
Soul Sonic Force,
Newcleus,
Grey Daturas,
Spoonie Gee,
The Cowsills,
Massinfluence,
David Bowie,
Sonic Youth,
The Invisible,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ituana,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Quantec,
Lower 48,
Cymande,
Warren Ellis,
Sparks,
Laurel Aitken,
the Swans,
EPMD,
Derrick Morgan,
Buzzcocks,
Sixth Finger,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DNA,
Porter Ricks,
Suicide,
The Martian,
Stiv Bators,
Depeche Mode,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Harmonia,
Marine Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Animal Collective,
Barry Ungar,
Bizarre Inc.,
Aural Exciters,
Jimmy McGriff,
Camberwell Now,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rufus Thomas,
Black Pus,
Pantytec,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Thompson Twins,
Gabor Szabo,
The Sound,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Main Source,
Ornette Coleman,
Mantronix,
L. Decosne,
Tommy Roe,
Wire,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.