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 Nigeria and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Donald Fagen 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 Excepter to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Ludus,
UT,
Gabor Szabo,
Country Teasers,
Yusef Lateef,
Basic Channel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Skarface,
Fela Kuti,
the Bar-Kays,
Lower 48,
Sex Pistols,
Lakeside,
The Young Rascals,
Don Cherry,
Massinfluence,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
10cc,
Joy Division,
Inner City,
Flipper,
Von Mondo,
Desert Stars,
X-Ray Spex,
Masters at Work,
Connie Case,
The Dead C,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sexual Harrassment,
Easy Going,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
ABC,
Lee Hazlewood,
Juan Atkins,
Vainqueur,
New Age Steppers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Isaac Hayes,
Steve Hackett,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Harry Pussy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bush Tetras,
Bronski Beat,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Scientists,
The Pop Group,
Eric Dolphy,
Con Funk Shun,
Black Sheep,
Eric B and Rakim,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pussy Galore,
James White and The Blacks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Underground Resistance,
Joyce Sims,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.