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 Austria and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes 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 Bobby Womack to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Chris & Cosey,
Stereo Dub,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sun City Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kaleidoscope,
Pierre Henry,
Lucky Dragons,
Kevin Saunderson,
K-Klass,
Interpol,
The Index,
The Move,
Graham Central Station,
Gregory Isaacs,
Janne Schatter,
Derrick Morgan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Red Krayola,
Niagra,
The Offenders,
The Modern Lovers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mark Hollis,
Saccharine Trust,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ituana,
Gang of Four,
Desert Stars,
Bobby Sherman,
The Black Dice,
Whodini,
Danielle Patucci,
Drive Like Jehu,
Harry Pussy,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Shadows of Knight,
Index,
The Dirtbombs,
Crash Course in Science,
Joe Finger,
Massinfluence,
AZ,
Supertramp,
The New Christs,
Traffic Nightmare,
Mandrill,
Ultravox,
Max Romeo,
Radiohead,
Erasure,
Vainqueur,
Aaron Thompson,
The Vogues,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Searchers,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.