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 Bangladesh and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
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 harpsichord 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 Audionom to the disco 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fall,
Blossom Toes,
Supertramp,
Boz Scaggs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bang On A Can,
X-101,
The Angels of Light,
David Bowie,
Bootsy Collins,
Banda Bassotti,
Moebius,
Janne Schatter,
The Pretty Things,
Clear Light,
Glenn Branca,
Scan 7,
Black Pus,
Aaron Thompson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lakeside,
Funkadelic,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Organ,
Camouflage,
Rod Modell,
The Skatalites,
Byron Stingily,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ossler,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rosa Yemen,
Ralphi Rosario,
Basic Channel,
Monolake,
Pet Shop Boys,
Faraquet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jandek,
Joe Finger,
Maleditus Sound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Pop Group,
World's Most,
OOIOO,
Matthew Halsall,
Silicon Teens,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Matthew Bourne,
Loose Ends,
Black Moon,
Marmalade,
Rakim,
Sugar Minott,
Das Ding,
Patti Smith,
The Victims,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.