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 Jordan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Amon Düül 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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Five Americans,
Tommy Roe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camouflage,
The Tremeloes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Black Flag,
Silicon Teens,
Magazine,
Anakelly,
June Days,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Dave Clark Five,
Symarip,
Bobby Byrd,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bush Tetras,
Nico,
Todd Rundgren,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Cymande,
Suicide,
Mandrill,
U.S. Maple,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Funkadelic,
Make Up,
Ten City,
Derrick May,
Tres Demented,
The Pop Group,
Joy Division,
Massinfluence,
Warsaw,
The Real Kids,
Yusef Lateef,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Echospace,
Alice Coltrane,
Harpers Bizarre,
Con Funk Shun,
Big Daddy Kane,
Suburban Knight,
Alison Limerick,
The Offenders,
Pantaleimon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
L. Decosne,
Livin' Joy,
Tom Boy,
Dennis Brown,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Donny Hathaway,
Man Parrish,
Peter and Kerry,
The Blues Magoos,
Popol Vuh,
Talk Talk,
Lee Hazlewood,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.