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 Morocco and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Spokane.
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 linndrum 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 Public Enemy to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott 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?
Susan Cadogan,
Jacques Brel,
The Pop Group,
8 Eyed Spy,
X-102,
kango's stein massive,
Bang On A Can,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Drexciya,
Rapeman,
Sight & Sound,
Khruangbin,
Swans,
Symarip,
Pantytec,
Guru Guru,
James Chance & The Contortions,
H. Thieme,
Faraquet,
The Count Five,
Joe Finger,
Rufus Thomas,
Rosa Yemen,
Masters at Work,
Basic Channel,
Neu!,
K-Klass,
Banda Bassotti,
Warren Ellis,
The Associates,
The Motions,
MDC,
Intrusion,
Peter and Kerry,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Wally Richardson,
The Techniques,
Soulsonic Force,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Matthew Bourne,
The Moody Blues,
Carl Craig,
Derrick Morgan,
Scientists,
Ken Boothe,
Pylon,
Sun Ra,
Fear,
David McCallum,
The Knickerbockers,
Can,
Colin Newman,
The Gun Club,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Archie Shepp,
Oneida,
These Immortal Souls,
Eric Dolphy,
OOIOO,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.