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 France and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Toronto and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Skriet to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Steve Hackett record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Donald Byrd,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Donny Hathaway,
Negative Approach,
Sight & Sound,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Procol Harum,
The Gun Club,
Yazoo,
Eric Dolphy,
the Soft Cell,
The Monochrome Set,
The Neon Judgement,
Little Man,
The Wake,
the Bar-Kays,
H. Thieme,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dual Sessions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Tim Buckley,
The Kinks,
Symarip,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Desert Stars,
Average White Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Alice Coltrane,
the Slits,
This Heat,
Skaos,
Kool Moe Dee,
Yellowson,
Magma,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Steve Hackett,
Los Fastidios,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Evens,
Agent Orange,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pylon,
Morten Harket,
a-ha,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Marcia Griffiths,
MDC,
Roy Ayers,
Porter Ricks,
Blossom Toes,
Suicide,
X-102,
Unrelated Segments,
New Order,
Inner City,
Hashim,
Brick,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pere Ubu,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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