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 Romania and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gastr Del Sol to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Newcleus,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nirvana,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Judy Mowatt,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Barry Ungar,
Stiv Bators,
Arab on Radar,
Jerry's Kids,
The Victims,
Connie Case,
Junior Murvin,
Gregory Isaacs,
The American Breed,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Knickerbockers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Can,
John Cale,
Bobby Sherman,
Pylon,
Echospace,
Supertramp,
Roxette,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
James White and The Blacks,
Yellowson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kool Moe Dee,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Youth Brigade,
Glenn Branca,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rotary Connection,
Sällskapet,
Eden Ahbez,
The Dead C,
Von Mondo,
Ronan,
Silicon Teens,
Joyce Sims,
Funky Four + One,
The Walker Brothers,
Robert Görl,
Eyeless In Gaza,
June of 44,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Crispy Ambulance,
Godley & Creme,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fela Kuti,
The Black Dice,
Royal Trux,
Sister Nancy,
Nico,
Terrestrial Tones,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.