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 India and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 marimba 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
China Crisis,
Jimmy McGriff,
Livin' Joy,
The Last Poets,
Youth Brigade,
Skarface,
CMW,
Half Japanese,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bronski Beat,
Hardrive,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nas,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
L. Decosne,
Beasts of Bourbon,
ABBA,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chris Corsano,
The Human League,
Anakelly,
T. Rex,
the Normal,
Zapp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rites of Spring,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barry Ungar,
FM Einheit,
Hoover,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ronan,
Freddie Wadling,
Robert Wyatt,
Reuben Wilson,
The Seeds,
Motorama,
Lakeside,
The Doors,
The Raincoats,
Robert Görl,
Lungfish,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Roxy Music,
Black Bananas,
Sugar Minott,
Nico,
Janne Schatter,
the Soft Cell,
The Angels of Light,
Mark Hollis,
Pussy Galore,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Slick Rick,
Eric Dolphy,
Robert Hood,
The Blackbyrds,
Lightning Bolt,
Soul Sonic Force,
Agitation Free,
Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17, Heaven 17.
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.