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 Burundi and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 marimba 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Letta Mbulu,
Ultravox,
Q and Not U,
Infiniti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Khruangbin,
Oblivians,
the Soft Cell,
The Young Rascals,
Warren Ellis,
Josef K,
Sonic Youth,
Yazoo,
Faust,
Boz Scaggs,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Fuzztones,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Whodini,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Moss Icon,
Slick Rick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
KRS-One,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Franke,
Roger Hodgson,
Delta 5,
The Skatalites,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Busters,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Electric Prunes,
The New Christs,
Roxy Music,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ice-T,
The Martian,
Mr. Review,
Cymande,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Boredoms,
The Birthday Party,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Blackbyrds,
Rod Modell,
John Lydon,
Archie Shepp,
Blake Baxter,
Michelle Simonal,
The Grass Roots,
Animal Collective,
Skriet,
Deepchord,
Simply Red,
Yusef Lateef,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Colin Newman,
Wings,
Harmonia,
June Days,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.