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 Poland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Johannesburg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Patti Smith to the dance 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Slave,
The J.B.'s,
Cameo,
Excepter,
Connie Case,
Amon Düül,
Crispy Ambulance,
Quantec,
Saccharine Trust,
ABC,
Eric Dolphy,
Popol Vuh,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Gladiators,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Monks,
The Electric Prunes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Animal Collective,
Outsiders,
Stereo Dub,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scott Walker,
the Germs,
Carl Craig,
the Human League,
Lower 48,
Nirvana,
L. Decosne,
Boz Scaggs,
Dead Boys,
Matthew Halsall,
Eurythmics,
The Modern Lovers,
Minny Pops,
The Toasters,
Desert Stars,
The Cramps,
Black Moon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bill Wells,
Aaron Thompson,
Section 25,
Piero Umiliani,
Altered Images,
The United States of America,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Standells,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bob Dylan,
Mr. Review,
Babytalk,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Suicide,
X-102,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Invisible,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Television Personalities,
MC5,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.