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 El Salvador and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 arpeggiator 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 Procol Harum to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Count Five. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Guru Guru,
The Skatalites,
Mary Jane Girls,
FM Einheit,
Stiv Bators,
Leonard Cohen,
Bad Manners,
The Raincoats,
Country Teasers,
Brass Construction,
Hasil Adkins,
Main Source,
L. Decosne,
Television,
Andrew Hill,
Matthew Bourne,
Basic Channel,
Chrome,
The Mojo Men,
Essential Logic,
Talk Talk,
Unrelated Segments,
The Durutti Column,
Sun Ra,
Sight & Sound,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Visage,
Soulsonic Force,
Half Japanese,
Model 500,
Rhythm & Sound,
Moebius,
Crooked Eye,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jawbox,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Blake Baxter,
Iggy Pop,
Goldenarms,
Delta 5,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Soft Cell,
The Real Kids,
MC5,
Pantaleimon,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Swans,
Massinfluence,
The Moody Blues,
Animal Collective,
Minutemen,
Zero Boys,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Frankie Knuckles,
Chris Corsano,
Drexciya,
Albert Ayler,
Vainqueur,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.