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 Sweden and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Holger Czukay 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 Grandmaster Flash to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
James White and The Blacks,
Ossler,
Robert Görl,
The Knickerbockers,
Warsaw,
Ten City,
Cymande,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Brick,
Roy Ayers,
Grey Daturas,
Moss Icon,
Los Fastidios,
Crime,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Music Machine,
Minutemen,
The Dave Clark Five,
Derrick May,
Altered Images,
Hardrive,
Deepchord,
Mandrill,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Urselle,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Association,
Max Romeo,
Scan 7,
The Golliwogs,
Schoolly D,
Radiohead,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
T. Rex,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Associates,
Soft Machine,
Basic Channel,
The Fortunes,
Erykah Badu,
Scratch Acid,
Duran Duran,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Gun Club,
Black Bananas,
Girls At Our Best!,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eddi Front,
This Heat,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sällskapet,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ituana,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Godley & Creme,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Avey Tare,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.