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 Comoros and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the punk 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
In Retrospect,
Pantaleimon,
The Neon Judgement,
Lalann,
Minutemen,
Crooked Eye,
Q and Not U,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marine Girls,
a-ha,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Soft Machine,
Bad Manners,
Jawbox,
Von Mondo,
B.T. Express,
Marc Almond,
The Searchers,
48th St. Collective,
Section 25,
The Gladiators,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
David Axelrod,
Ten City,
Kayak,
The Skatalites,
Grauzone,
The Barracudas,
John Coltrane,
Minnie Riperton,
Derrick Morgan,
Quadrant,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Underground Resistance,
FM Einheit,
Smog,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Black Moon,
Funkadelic,
Amon Düül,
Blake Baxter,
Carl Craig,
Toni Rubio,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mr. Review,
Unwound,
Colin Newman,
Thee Headcoats,
Yellowson,
Sound Behaviour,
Sun City Girls,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Wally Richardson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fugazi,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Angry Samoans,
Sugar Minott,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cameo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.