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 Sierra Leone and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gang Gang Dance to the punk 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Radiopuhelimet,
Guru Guru,
Ronnie Foster,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Aural Exciters,
Lou Christie,
Television Personalities,
Rotary Connection,
Liliput,
Flash Fearless,
The Dead C,
U.S. Maple,
Drexciya,
F. McDonald,
Juan Atkins,
Joy Division,
Alice Coltrane,
Letta Mbulu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Zero Boys,
Bootsy Collins,
Bill Near,
Country Teasers,
Whodini,
Index,
Bang On A Can,
The Count Five,
Faraquet,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
JFA,
Leonard Cohen,
Quantec,
Joey Negro,
The Dirtbombs,
Eli Mardock,
The Doors,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Michelle Simonal,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bobby Sherman,
B.T. Express,
Icehouse,
X-102,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
These Immortal Souls,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Grass Roots,
Derrick May,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Fire Engines,
The Tremeloes,
Echospace,
Ultravox,
Moebius,
Slick Rick,
Gerry Rafferty,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Mojo Men,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.