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 Barbados and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Anakelly to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
The Motions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Can,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lee Hazlewood,
Delon & Dalcan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scientists,
Moby Grape,
The Slackers,
Sun City Girls,
Fatback Band,
Nils Olav,
Drexciya,
Kerri Chandler,
Fela Kuti,
Ralphi Rosario,
Alton Ellis,
Prince Buster,
MDC,
Juan Atkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pantytec,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Black Sheep,
The Stooges,
Funky Four + One,
The Blues Magoos,
AZ,
Agitation Free,
Pharoah Sanders,
Symarip,
Gerry Rafferty,
Underground Resistance,
Negative Approach,
Whodini,
Janne Schatter,
The Birthday Party,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Make Up,
Kenny Larkin,
Joy Division,
The Blackbyrds,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Thee Headcoats,
Rod Modell,
Hoover,
Graham Central Station,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Doors,
Sound Behaviour,
Guru Guru,
kango's stein massive,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Flag,
Kas Product,
Quando Quango,
Skriet,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Amon Düül II,
Eurythmics,
Blancmange,
ABC,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.