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 Turkey and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 chamberlin 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 Stiv Bators to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
John Foxx,
Darondo,
Neu!,
Joe Smooth,
Peter and Kerry,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alphaville,
Letta Mbulu,
Public Enemy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Black Bananas,
The Young Rascals,
Lee Hazlewood,
Accadde A,
Nik Kershaw,
Boredoms,
Siglo XX,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Y Pants,
Arthur Verocai,
Roxy Music,
The Durutti Column,
The Detroit Cobras,
Drexciya,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
AZ,
Cybotron,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
A Certain Ratio,
Traffic Nightmare,
Smog,
Quantec,
T.S.O.L.,
The Music Machine,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Matthew Halsall,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Grass Roots,
Das Ding,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Todd Rundgren,
Swans,
Television Personalities,
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Moody Blues,
The Martian,
Tubeway Army,
Deepchord,
The Residents,
Rapeman,
Juan Atkins,
Marine Girls,
Lucky Dragons,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.