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 Kazakhstan and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 John Coltrane to the techno 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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Soft Cell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roxette,
Johnny Clarke,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Association,
Technova,
Shoche,
The Techniques,
The Walker Brothers,
The Electric Prunes,
Neu!,
The Gap Band,
Lou Reed,
Deadbeat,
Lightning Bolt,
The Gladiators,
DNA,
ABBA,
Dual Sessions,
Max Romeo,
Marvin Gaye,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kevin Saunderson,
Livin' Joy,
Joe Smooth,
Das Ding,
The Stooges,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Young Marble Giants,
Lalo Schifrin,
Erasure,
Joy Division,
Fluxion,
Laurel Aitken,
Agitation Free,
Moss Icon,
Ohio Players,
10cc,
Angry Samoans,
U.S. Maple,
The Move,
Swans,
Altered Images,
Grauzone,
Oneida,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jerry Gold Smith,
L. Decosne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
UT,
Negative Approach,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Underground Resistance,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jacob Miller,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.