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 Angola and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Lou Reed 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Wake,
Bang On A Can,
Lucky Dragons,
Nik Kershaw,
John Cale,
Schoolly D,
Stiv Bators,
10cc,
Mantronix,
In Retrospect,
Whodini,
ABBA,
OOIOO,
Leonard Cohen,
The Star Department,
Black Pus,
Kaleidoscope,
Camouflage,
Technova,
Roxy Music,
Sixth Finger,
Masters at Work,
Kayak,
K-Klass,
Rhythm & Sound,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sister Nancy,
Boogie Down Productions,
Spoonie Gee,
The Gories,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sight & Sound,
Reagan Youth,
Frankie Knuckles,
PIL,
Lower 48,
Kerri Chandler,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Martian,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Barrington Levy,
Fad Gadget,
Lindisfarne,
Black Sheep,
Gong,
Von Mondo,
X-101,
Robert Görl,
Fatback Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mr. Review,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Blackbyrds,
Roger Hodgson,
Joyce Sims,
Suburban Knight,
The Trojans,
Graham Central Station,
Erykah Badu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.