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 Romania and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 theremin 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 K-Klass to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Martian 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pierre Henry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fortunes,
Graham Central Station,
Cameo,
Second Layer,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kayak,
Tomorrow,
Todd Terry,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Byron Stingily,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Associates,
Magazine,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Birthday Party,
F. McDonald,
Fugazi,
Adolescents,
ABC,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sparks,
Unwound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Fire Engines,
Masters at Work,
Chrome,
Roger Hodgson,
The Zeros,
Pulsallama,
Suburban Knight,
Don Cherry,
Rufus Thomas,
Soulsonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
New Order,
Whodini,
Alton Ellis,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dave Gahan,
Hardrive,
Deepchord,
Slick Rick,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Black Dice,
Joe Finger,
Popol Vuh,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Electric Prunes,
Robert Görl,
Sonic Youth,
Niagra,
Amon Düül,
The Angels of Light,
the Germs,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.