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 Germany and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 X-101 to the crunk 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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a E-Dancer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Kool Moe Dee,
Barclay James Harvest,
Magma,
Yusef Lateef,
Gastr Del Sol,
Simply Red,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lower 48,
Connie Case,
The Happenings,
H. Thieme,
The Pop Group,
Tomorrow,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ice-T,
Radio Birdman,
UT,
Technova,
Beasts of Bourbon,
FM Einheit,
Country Teasers,
the Sonics,
Amon Düül,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Shuggie Otis,
Deakin,
Jerry's Kids,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Moss Icon,
Don Cherry,
Chrome,
Delta 5,
The Motions,
The Techniques,
The Birthday Party,
The United States of America,
Vainqueur,
Khruangbin,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Brothers Johnson,
Davy DMX,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Black Bananas,
Radiopuhelimet,
Faraquet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rapeman,
Ken Boothe,
The Monochrome Set,
Joe Finger,
Organ,
EPMD,
Quadrant,
Idris Muhammad,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sight & Sound,
Sex Pistols,
Mission of Burma,
Grandmaster Flash,
Slave,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.