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 Syria and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Tokyo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 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 Infiniti to the rock 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James White and The Blacks 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?
Donny Hathaway,
The Vogues,
Franke,
Derrick May,
Jacob Miller,
Ten City,
Infiniti,
Television,
La Düsseldorf,
Model 500,
Drexciya,
Scientists,
Accadde A,
Dennis Brown,
Hasil Adkins,
Lucky Dragons,
John Coltrane,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Throbbing Gristle,
Au Pairs,
The Smiths,
Swell Maps,
Rakim,
Das Ding,
Joensuu 1685,
Crispian St. Peters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roy Ayers,
Erasure,
Pagans,
The New Christs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camberwell Now,
Groovy Waters,
Quadrant,
John Holt,
Minnie Riperton,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Little Man,
Trumans Water,
Matthew Bourne,
Nirvana,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Buzzcocks,
Eddi Front,
Piero Umiliani,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bauhaus,
F. McDonald,
the Fania All-Stars,
the Germs,
Tropical Tobacco,
Surgeon,
Nick Fraelich,
Bluetip,
the Normal,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sun Ra,
Neu!,
Soul Sonic Force,
Q and Not U,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.