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 Egypt and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Swell Maps to the disco 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Simply Red,
Los Fastidios,
Letta Mbulu,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Byrd,
Yusef Lateef,
Eddi Front,
Barbara Tucker,
The Gories,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Davy DMX,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Amon Düül II,
The Blues Magoos,
Ituana,
Zapp,
JFA,
Bobby Womack,
The Remains,
Quadrant,
Junior Murvin,
Jacques Brel,
Ponytail,
Sonic Youth,
Shoche,
Hot Snakes,
Severed Heads,
The Gap Band,
Bluetip,
Motorama,
Pantaleimon,
Darondo,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hashim,
Qualms,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Dave Clark Five,
Altered Images,
Black Bananas,
kango's stein massive,
Bad Manners,
Sparks,
UT,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Moleskins,
The Monochrome Set,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Modern Lovers,
Fear,
Hasil Adkins,
Public Enemy,
Schoolly D,
The Mummies,
Camouflage,
Roxy Music,
X-101,
Aloha Tigers,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.