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 Korea South and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 DNA to the dance 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 The Dirtbombs. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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 Human League,
Accadde A,
Can,
Todd Terry,
Country Teasers,
The Walker Brothers,
The Gap Band,
The Gun Club,
DJ Sneak,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Vladislav Delay,
Charles Mingus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mission of Burma,
The Sound,
Masters at Work,
Young Marble Giants,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Bananas,
The Happenings,
Bill Wells,
Outsiders,
U.S. Maple,
Roger Hodgson,
Rosa Yemen,
Intrusion,
Ultravox,
Malaria!,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crime,
The Names,
Quantec,
Fad Gadget,
The Remains,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Model 500,
Todd Rundgren,
Ituana,
The Doors,
Pulsallama,
Arcadia,
John Foxx,
Icehouse,
Leonard Cohen,
Thee Headcoats,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soulsonic Force,
OOIOO,
Vainqueur,
Chris Corsano,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Skaos,
Avey Tare,
LL Cool J,
Joyce Sims,
Mr. Review,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Brass Construction,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.