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 New Zealand and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Marmalade to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Crash Course in Science,
Boz Scaggs,
The Dirtbombs,
Bill Near,
JFA,
Unwound,
Pulsallama,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fugazi,
Sarah Menescal,
The Music Machine,
Yazoo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lindisfarne,
Joy Division,
Barclay James Harvest,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pagans,
The Techniques,
John Cale,
Bluetip,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scientists,
Chris Corsano,
Ultimate Spinach,
Das Ding,
Shoche,
Moebius,
Nation of Ulysses,
Glambeats Corp.,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Aswad,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fugs,
The Sound,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jawbox,
Robert Hood,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Brass Construction,
The Last Poets,
Spoonie Gee,
Icehouse,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Josef K,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Amon Düül,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Names,
Archie Shepp,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
Country Teasers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
8 Eyed Spy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.