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 Uganda and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar 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 the Association to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Bush Tetras,
Sun Ra,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rites of Spring,
Harpers Bizarre,
Blake Baxter,
Alton Ellis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Associates,
kango's stein massive,
Mandrill,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
X-102,
Juan Atkins,
John Lydon,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eden Ahbez,
Gang Starr,
Sandy B,
Joy Division,
Prince Buster,
Eric Dolphy,
Kayak,
The Zeros,
the Soft Cell,
Pantaleimon,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pierre Henry,
Traffic Nightmare,
JFA,
Brothers Johnson,
David McCallum,
Pussy Galore,
Adolescents,
Pere Ubu,
the Association,
Davy DMX,
Radio Birdman,
Reuben Wilson,
Derrick May,
Icehouse,
Ossler,
Buzzcocks,
PIL,
Cheater Slicks,
Josef K,
Das Ding,
Bad Manners,
John Foxx,
Tropical Tobacco,
Saccharine Trust,
Grey Daturas,
Byron Stingily,
Camberwell Now,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Boredoms,
The Monochrome Set,
Sound Behaviour,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.