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 Chile and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Patti Smith to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Max Romeo,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
X-102,
Wings,
Whodini,
Magma,
The Sound,
Robert Hood,
World's Most,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Standells,
Grandmaster Flash,
Judy Mowatt,
Inner City,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Traffic Nightmare,
Young Marble Giants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Patti Smith,
Marvin Gaye,
The Offenders,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
R.M.O.,
The Buckinghams,
Saccharine Trust,
Yusef Lateef,
the Slits,
Todd Terry,
Hardrive,
Oblivians,
Scion,
The Velvet Underground,
The Trojans,
Trumans Water,
The Martian,
The Victims,
Juan Atkins,
The Litter,
Los Fastidios,
8 Eyed Spy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marine Girls,
Camberwell Now,
Gastr Del Sol,
Banda Bassotti,
Carl Craig,
Deadbeat,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jandek,
Zero Boys,
Aloha Tigers,
Alison Limerick,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Fire Engines,
Subhumans,
Flash Fearless,
the Normal,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bobby Womack,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.