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 Turkey and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 organ 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 Anakelly to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Copeland record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cybotron,
Can,
Bronski Beat,
UT,
Skarface,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Hot Snakes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Metal Thangz,
The Invisible,
The Index,
Tears for Fears,
Stereo Dub,
Joe Finger,
Nik Kershaw,
Adolescents,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bang On A Can,
Chrome,
Dual Sessions,
The Count Five,
John Lydon,
Ohio Players,
Morten Harket,
The Sonics,
Tom Boy,
Camouflage,
Simply Red,
Sarah Menescal,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kas Product,
Swell Maps,
Lower 48,
10cc,
the Swans,
The Divine Comedy,
Roger Hodgson,
The Neon Judgement,
Lou Christie,
Gerry Rafferty,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lightning Bolt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Pus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Quadrant,
Althea and Donna,
Television,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arthur Verocai,
Max Romeo,
Ten City,
Deakin,
Von Mondo,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soulsonic Force,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Hasil Adkins,
Heaven 17,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.