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 Laos and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Trumans Water 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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
Cheater Slicks,
Altered Images,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echospace,
Pussy Galore,
Jandek,
DJ Sneak,
Flipper,
Lalann,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gong,
Thompson Twins,
Robert Hood,
The American Breed,
The Happenings,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Swans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Motions,
Faust,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Soft Cell,
Lightning Bolt,
Camberwell Now,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Arcadia,
Black Flag,
Blossom Toes,
The Smiths,
Chris Corsano,
Lalo Schifrin,
ABC,
Eve St. Jones,
Inner City,
Glenn Branca,
Ultra Naté,
The Mummies,
Deadbeat,
Blancmange,
Roxette,
Sparks,
Ituana,
The Last Poets,
Television Personalities,
The Vogues,
The Beau Brummels,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bizarre Inc.,
John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Marvin Gaye,
Moby Grape,
Kayak,
Davy DMX,
Ten City,
Angry Samoans,
Franke,
June Days,
LL Cool J,
Panda Bear,
the Normal,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.