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 San Marino and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 808 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 The Leaves to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
Freddie Wadling,
10cc,
Sparks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Unrelated Segments,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Real Kids,
Outsiders,
Judy Mowatt,
John Cale,
the Sonics,
Pagans,
Intrusion,
Howard Jones,
Arcadia,
Dual Sessions,
Fad Gadget,
K-Klass,
Letta Mbulu,
Skaos,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Make Up,
Mad Mike,
OOIOO,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Black Dice,
Rekid,
The Pretty Things,
Depeche Mode,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Audionom,
Gregory Isaacs,
Main Source,
Brand Nubian,
Fugazi,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Slackers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Eric Copeland,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Monochrome Set,
Sex Pistols,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Velvet Underground,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
These Immortal Souls,
The Smiths,
Sixth Finger,
Absolute Body Control,
Lindisfarne,
Soft Machine,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Masters at Work,
Soft Cell,
Albert Ayler,
Cal Tjader,
The Smoke,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fela Kuti,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.