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 Libya and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Tim Buckley to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Trumans Water,
Peter & Gordon,
Amazonics,
The Smiths,
Massinfluence,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kurtis Blow,
The Electric Prunes,
The Martian,
Deepchord,
John Lydon,
Guru Guru,
Thompson Twins,
The Happenings,
the Association,
Crispy Ambulance,
Avey Tare,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
LL Cool J,
Cal Tjader,
Gabor Szabo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
cv313,
Vainqueur,
Hashim,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Associates,
Harpers Bizarre,
Can,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dennis Brown,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
JFA,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
E-Dancer,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wally Richardson,
The Selecter,
a-ha,
PIL,
Lou Reed,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Birthday Party,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
T.S.O.L.,
Procol Harum,
The Gap Band,
Animal Collective,
Maurizio,
Rakim,
Amon Düül II,
Cecil Taylor,
Gong,
Judy Mowatt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Public Enemy,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.