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 Iceland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Smoke to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
ABBA,
Nirvana,
Index,
Loose Ends,
Hashim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soul Sonic Force,
Groovy Waters,
Skaos,
Kerri Chandler,
Mandrill,
Albert Ayler,
Barry Ungar,
Minor Threat,
The Buckinghams,
Rekid,
Lucky Dragons,
One Last Wish,
Donny Hathaway,
Massinfluence,
Eurythmics,
Arab on Radar,
Q65,
New Age Steppers,
Bad Manners,
Talk Talk,
Pole,
EPMD,
F. McDonald,
Deadbeat,
Wire,
Fatback Band,
Unrelated Segments,
Excepter,
Boredoms,
8 Eyed Spy,
Nation of Ulysses,
China Crisis,
Agent Orange,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bauhaus,
Byron Stingily,
KRS-One,
Avey Tare,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Swans,
Sonic Youth,
PIL,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Circle Jerks,
Marshall Jefferson,
10cc,
The Monochrome Set,
The Neon Judgement,
JFA,
Dorothy Ashby,
Marvin Gaye,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.