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 Grenada and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Lou Reed 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 Aural Exciters to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
Tom Boy,
One Last Wish,
Skaos,
Ralphi Rosario,
Stiv Bators,
The Fortunes,
Fear,
Nico,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Bananas,
Marcia Griffiths,
Prince Buster,
Cluster,
kango's stein massive,
Warsaw,
Reagan Youth,
DNA,
Essential Logic,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Y Pants,
Zero Boys,
Mission of Burma,
MC5,
Amon Düül,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Sonics,
Quadrant,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Donny Hathaway,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Little Man,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Monolake,
Moby Grape,
Marc Almond,
KRS-One,
John Lydon,
Albert Ayler,
Crash Course in Science,
T.S.O.L.,
La Düsseldorf,
The Martian,
Alphaville,
Radio Birdman,
Slave,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Techniques,
Marmalade,
Lower 48,
Massinfluence,
Terry Callier,
F. McDonald,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Thee Headcoats,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Toasters,
The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five, The Count Five.
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.