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 Iran and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Can to the funk 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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
The Mummies,
Japan,
Derrick Morgan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
cv313,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Television,
Whodini,
Andrew Hill,
Royal Trux,
Johnny Clarke,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Marvin Gaye,
Dark Day,
Q and Not U,
Eric Dolphy,
Public Enemy,
Circle Jerks,
Nirvana,
Visage,
Amon Düül II,
Camberwell Now,
Skarface,
Porter Ricks,
MDC,
Underground Resistance,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Residents,
Ultravox,
Panda Bear,
Boredoms,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Barrington Levy,
Joe Finger,
L. Decosne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
World's Most,
Matthew Halsall,
Davy DMX,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Can,
The Human League,
Tommy Roe,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Janne Schatter,
Youth Brigade,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kayak,
Bush Tetras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Adolescents,
Basic Channel,
The Offenders,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.