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 Bolivia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Holger Czukay 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Boogie Down Productions,
La Düsseldorf,
Technova,
Fluxion,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Divine Comedy,
Masters at Work,
The Move,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eve St. Jones,
X-Ray Spex,
The Selecter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dave Gahan,
Scientists,
Pet Shop Boys,
Terry Callier,
The Sonics,
Panda Bear,
Quando Quango,
Agent Orange,
UT,
Blossom Toes,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Fela Kuti,
Spoonie Gee,
Delta 5,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Davy DMX,
The Fire Engines,
Pagans,
The Fortunes,
The United States of America,
Tubeway Army,
Livin' Joy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gong,
Michelle Simonal,
Roger Hodgson,
Eden Ahbez,
Heaven 17,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Connie Case,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pussy Galore,
The Invisible,
Bang On A Can,
The Smoke,
Delon & Dalcan,
Whodini,
Ice-T,
Idris Muhammad,
Black Flag,
Marcia Griffiths,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Blake Baxter,
Soulsonic Force,
Amazonics,
Blancmange,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.