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 Kenya and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Ohio Players to the techno 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Byron Stingily,
Moby Grape,
Radiohead,
Gregory Isaacs,
Laurel Aitken,
Panda Bear,
Roxette,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Brand Nubian,
JFA,
Duran Duran,
Organ,
Echospace,
Tim Buckley,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rites of Spring,
Pussy Galore,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Nico,
Loose Ends,
Deakin,
The Five Americans,
Massinfluence,
Rotary Connection,
Radiopuhelimet,
Thee Headcoats,
Lee Hazlewood,
Archie Shepp,
Wasted Youth,
Smog,
Gabor Szabo,
Scott Walker,
Scion,
John Holt,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Angry Samoans,
Cluster,
Godley & Creme,
Fluxion,
Reuben Wilson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Agitation Free,
Ossler,
Avey Tare,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Shoche,
B.T. Express,
Boredoms,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Derrick Morgan,
Peter and Kerry,
Mark Hollis,
MC5,
Juan Atkins,
DJ Sneak,
The Durutti Column,
Bad Manners,
Agent Orange,
Isaac Hayes,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.