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 Belarus and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 clarinet 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 Gian Franco Pienzio to the techno 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Maleditus Sound,
Terry Callier,
Kaleidoscope,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eli Mardock,
Gerry Rafferty,
Vladislav Delay,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Zapp,
Prince Buster,
Massinfluence,
Erykah Badu,
Silicon Teens,
Peter and Kerry,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Slits,
The Raincoats,
The Blues Magoos,
Black Sheep,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pantaleimon,
Drive Like Jehu,
Glenn Branca,
Sonny Sharrock,
China Crisis,
R.M.O.,
Carl Craig,
Lalann,
Warren Ellis,
Television Personalities,
Stereo Dub,
MC5,
Fat Boys,
Au Pairs,
June Days,
Ossler,
The Sound,
Wire,
Eyeless In Gaza,
David Bowie,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Sherman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Smiths,
Curtis Mayfield,
K-Klass,
Rotary Connection,
Nick Fraelich,
Television,
Section 25,
Half Japanese,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Althea and Donna,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
CMW,
Bad Manners,
Josef K,
Metal Thangz,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.