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 Japan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes 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 Von Mondo to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Index,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DNA,
Todd Terry,
Brand Nubian,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Invisible,
Pere Ubu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sister Nancy,
Desert Stars,
Ultravox,
Moby Grape,
Eli Mardock,
Zero Boys,
The Searchers,
H. Thieme,
Barclay James Harvest,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Franke,
Kenny Larkin,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hardrive,
Basic Channel,
Monolake,
The Velvet Underground,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Martian,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Fela Kuti,
Panda Bear,
The Music Machine,
Joey Negro,
The Fire Engines,
The Victims,
Harry Pussy,
Delta 5,
Lee Hazlewood,
U.S. Maple,
Public Enemy,
Youth Brigade,
Donny Hathaway,
The Saints,
Rekid,
Minor Threat,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tubeway Army,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Robert Wyatt,
June Days,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marmalade,
The Wake,
Isaac Hayes,
Underground Resistance,
Hashim,
Nas,
Sun Ra,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.