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 St Lucia and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Eden Ahbez to the grunge 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 The Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Glenn Branca,
Ponytail,
Agent Orange,
Public Image Ltd.,
These Immortal Souls,
Section 25,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Agitation Free,
Kurtis Blow,
The Angels of Light,
Jeff Mills,
Shuggie Otis,
The Pop Group,
Todd Rundgren,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sällskapet,
Soul Sonic Force,
Derrick May,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fugs,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cowsills,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Leaves,
Lou Christie,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Sonics,
JFA,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gang Starr,
Pantaleimon,
Chris & Cosey,
Curtis Mayfield,
Aaron Thompson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Donald Byrd,
The Birthday Party,
Aswad,
The Associates,
Ultimate Spinach,
The American Breed,
Gong,
Soulsonic Force,
Moby Grape,
Severed Heads,
The Kinks,
DJ Sneak,
The Red Krayola,
The Busters,
Eric Dolphy,
Jerry's Kids,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ultravox,
Gang of Four,
Ituana,
Sparks,
LL Cool J,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jacob Miller,
Bluetip,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.