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 Cyprus and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Bang On A Can to the dance 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 The American Breed. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Essential Logic,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Qualms,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Erasure,
The Raincoats,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
ABC,
Marcia Griffiths,
Harpers Bizarre,
Desert Stars,
Sound Behaviour,
Agitation Free,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Iggy Pop,
The Index,
D'Angelo,
Robert Görl,
Black Flag,
Minnie Riperton,
The Remains,
OOIOO,
Crooked Eye,
Peter & Gordon,
Sight & Sound,
Marshall Jefferson,
Anakelly,
The Gun Club,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Moon,
Television,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Star Department,
Silicon Teens,
CMW,
Wally Richardson,
John Cale,
Ludus,
Althea and Donna,
Dual Sessions,
The Tremeloes,
Mandrill,
The New Christs,
The Martian,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bobby Sherman,
Scratch Acid,
Bush Tetras,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kerri Chandler,
Y Pants,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Magma,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soulsonic Force,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sister Nancy,
Glenn Branca,
Ultimate Spinach,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.