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 Antigua and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 sitar 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 Lou Christie to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
The Cramps,
Niagra,
Moby Grape,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aural Exciters,
Sun Ra,
Tropical Tobacco,
Smog,
Bronski Beat,
Moss Icon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Idris Muhammad,
Suburban Knight,
Soft Cell,
Sex Pistols,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Altered Images,
Heaven 17,
Aaron Thompson,
Con Funk Shun,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gichy Dan,
The Associates,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Names,
The Blackbyrds,
Marine Girls,
Parry Music,
Lalann,
Lou Reed,
The Index,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dual Sessions,
Donald Byrd,
Ludus,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eden Ahbez,
Depeche Mode,
R.M.O.,
Basic Channel,
A Certain Ratio,
Sixth Finger,
Khruangbin,
X-102,
Guru Guru,
Magma,
The Monochrome Set,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hardrive,
Quadrant,
Joyce Sims,
Warsaw,
Intrusion,
Cybotron,
Vladislav Delay,
Hoover,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.