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 Zimbabwe and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Yazoo to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Pop Group,
The Trojans,
Peter & Gordon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Golliwogs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scan 7,
Minutemen,
Black Bananas,
Josef K,
Jandek,
Crime,
Howard Jones,
Colin Newman,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Amon Düül II,
Alice Coltrane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Faraquet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bronski Beat,
Agitation Free,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Subhumans,
Sällskapet,
The Black Dice,
Minnie Riperton,
Althea and Donna,
Pussy Galore,
Toni Rubio,
Ituana,
Sun City Girls,
Zapp,
The Move,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Busters,
Wasted Youth,
Lou Reed,
Stetsasonic,
Ultravox,
Cluster,
Fat Boys,
Roy Ayers,
Sonic Youth,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Neon Judgement,
Fear,
Rites of Spring,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Warren Ellis,
The Tremeloes,
Dual Sessions,
CMW,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gong,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.