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 Panama and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the dance 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
The Toasters,
Visage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Roy Ayers,
Agitation Free,
The Last Poets,
Bauhaus,
The Monks,
Ronan,
Peter and Kerry,
China Crisis,
Yellowson,
The Blues Magoos,
Groovy Waters,
Pierre Henry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Deadbeat,
Marc Almond,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Isaac Hayes,
The Real Kids,
Godley & Creme,
The Dirtbombs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scrapy,
Stereo Dub,
The Victims,
Erykah Badu,
Glambeats Corp.,
Outsiders,
The Skatalites,
Monolake,
10cc,
Bad Manners,
Organ,
Chris Corsano,
The Monochrome Set,
World's Most,
Con Funk Shun,
The Happenings,
Wire,
Trumans Water,
Camouflage,
Banda Bassotti,
Agent Orange,
Eurythmics,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The American Breed,
Cal Tjader,
Gang Green,
One Last Wish,
Idris Muhammad,
Iggy Pop,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
B.T. Express,
Terry Callier,
Gang of Four,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hoover,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.