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 Fiji and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 spring reverb 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 Interpol to the punk 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cheater Slicks,
Can,
a-ha,
Mr. Review,
Minor Threat,
Reagan Youth,
Blake Baxter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DJ Style,
Inner City,
Brothers Johnson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
KRS-One,
John Cale,
MC5,
Roxette,
The Saints,
Stockholm Monsters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ohio Players,
Rites of Spring,
The Wake,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sandy B,
Banda Bassotti,
The Mojo Men,
Sonny Sharrock,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Minutemen,
Wire,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Charles Mingus,
Graham Central Station,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Warsaw,
Joensuu 1685,
Bobby Womack,
Pere Ubu,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fall,
Scrapy,
Erykah Badu,
Peter & Gordon,
K-Klass,
The Grass Roots,
Country Teasers,
Ossler,
One Last Wish,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Trojans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes, The Electric Prunes.
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.