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 Saudi Arabia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The American Breed to the grime 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Mr. Review tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Terrestrial Tones,
Monolake,
EPMD,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joe Smooth,
The Human League,
Roxy Music,
Reagan Youth,
The Slackers,
The Five Americans,
Dead Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fortunes,
Peter & Gordon,
Deadbeat,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Thee Headcoats,
Funkadelic,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kenny Larkin,
Skarface,
A Certain Ratio,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Beau Brummels,
Clear Light,
Banda Bassotti,
Radiopuhelimet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Visage,
David Axelrod,
Mark Hollis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Alison Limerick,
Big Daddy Kane,
Barbara Tucker,
Deakin,
Intrusion,
The Doors,
Drive Like Jehu,
Hardrive,
Grauzone,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kerrie Biddell,
Anakelly,
The Velvet Underground,
Mission of Burma,
Q and Not U,
The Mojo Men,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crispian St. Peters,
Livin' Joy,
Girls At Our Best!,
Minutemen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camouflage,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fad Gadget,
The Seeds,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.