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 Singapore and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bizarre Inc. to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pantaleimon,
the Sonics,
The Standells,
Schoolly D,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
June Days,
Fear,
The Associates,
Nico,
Roy Ayers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Chris Corsano,
Ultimate Spinach,
Fat Boys,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Sonics,
Model 500,
The Last Poets,
Black Flag,
Iggy Pop,
Au Pairs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ituana,
The Motions,
Sugar Minott,
Colin Newman,
La Düsseldorf,
Faust,
Leonard Cohen,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Zeros,
Pylon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Delon & Dalcan,
Blossom Toes,
Roxy Music,
R.M.O.,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Los Fastidios,
Niagra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
These Immortal Souls,
Ten City,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bobby Byrd,
Mars,
Jeff Mills,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mantronix,
Rufus Thomas,
Soft Cell,
Barbara Tucker,
Main Source,
Rites of Spring,
Jawbox,
Tears for Fears,
The Moleskins,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.