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 Liberia and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare 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 Drive Like Jehu to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
The Evens,
Cluster,
Cheater Slicks,
Heaven 17,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ossler,
The Divine Comedy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Modern Lovers,
Yellowson,
The Star Department,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Blossom Toes,
Piero Umiliani,
Black Moon,
Sonic Youth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Barry Ungar,
JFA,
Delon & Dalcan,
MC5,
The Blues Magoos,
The Knickerbockers,
Anakelly,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Human League,
MDC,
The Offenders,
The Names,
Michelle Simonal,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Mummies,
Deepchord,
Depeche Mode,
Stereo Dub,
Hot Snakes,
The Monks,
Intrusion,
Arthur Verocai,
Kerri Chandler,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Standells,
Cymande,
Brand Nubian,
The Motions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fluxion,
Lyres,
Camberwell Now,
Warsaw,
the Sonics,
The United States of America,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
One Last Wish,
T. Rex,
New Age Steppers,
AZ,
the Slits,
Eric Dolphy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.