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 Guatemala and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 linndrum 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 Desert Stars to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Young Marble Giants,
AZ,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
These Immortal Souls,
Peter & Gordon,
Lightning Bolt,
Aural Exciters,
Eurythmics,
The Skatalites,
Joe Finger,
Kevin Saunderson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Names,
Shuggie Otis,
The Flesh Eaters,
Aswad,
The Evens,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bluetip,
Agitation Free,
Quando Quango,
The Neon Judgement,
The Cowsills,
Erasure,
Sister Nancy,
Vladislav Delay,
Crispy Ambulance,
Peter and Kerry,
Funky Four + One,
Isaac Hayes,
Visage,
The Residents,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Porter Ricks,
Althea and Donna,
Bill Near,
Motorama,
The Velvet Underground,
Joensuu 1685,
Rufus Thomas,
Bootsy Collins,
The Busters,
Make Up,
Kenny Larkin,
The Young Rascals,
Grandmaster Flash,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Unrelated Segments,
Quadrant,
Q and Not U,
Gil Scott Heron,
Groovy Waters,
Flipper,
Frankie Knuckles,
Skarface,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Saccharine Trust,
Pulsallama,
Los Fastidios,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.