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 Bolivia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 synthesizer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Martian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gang Green,
Godley & Creme,
Steve Hackett,
X-102,
Amon Düül,
Lou Reed,
Groovy Waters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sarah Menescal,
The Slits,
Ohio Players,
Nico,
Wasted Youth,
The Associates,
Barbara Tucker,
Robert Görl,
Robert Wyatt,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roy Ayers,
Bobby Byrd,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lyres,
Make Up,
Dead Boys,
Fad Gadget,
EPMD,
The Fall,
Marshall Jefferson,
Minnie Riperton,
Warren Ellis,
Eric B and Rakim,
Swans,
Ultimate Spinach,
OOIOO,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Flash Fearless,
Eric Copeland,
Don Cherry,
Donald Byrd,
Moby Grape,
Alton Ellis,
Drive Like Jehu,
Can,
Little Man,
Supertramp,
The Zeros,
David Axelrod,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Minutemen,
Dark Day,
Ice-T,
The Monochrome Set,
Niagra,
Hardrive,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Moody Blues,
Procol Harum,
Rotary Connection,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.