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 Antigua and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Winnipeg.
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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Grauzone to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo 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?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Gun Club,
The Five Americans,
Hardrive,
Magma,
Deepchord,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mad Mike,
Morten Harket,
Section 25,
The Names,
Soul Sonic Force,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Association,
Khruangbin,
Slick Rick,
Grey Daturas,
Television,
Flamin' Groovies,
Slave,
the Bar-Kays,
Stetsasonic,
The Young Rascals,
Aaron Thompson,
Scrapy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Walker Brothers,
Panda Bear,
Agitation Free,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scion,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
La Düsseldorf,
ABC,
John Foxx,
Bad Manners,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Excepter,
Mars,
Wally Richardson,
The Durutti Column,
The Selecter,
In Retrospect,
The Human League,
Yaz,
Althea and Donna,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gong,
Y Pants,
Desert Stars,
Swell Maps,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Prince Buster,
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.