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 Iceland and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Shuggie Otis to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marshall Jefferson,
Amazonics,
Agent Orange,
Index,
Kerri Chandler,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Q65,
Monolake,
The Birthday Party,
X-101,
Tres Demented,
The Young Rascals,
Niagra,
The Cure,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Searchers,
Matthew Halsall,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gerry Rafferty,
Tears for Fears,
Sonny Sharrock,
FM Einheit,
LL Cool J,
Eden Ahbez,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Aaron Thompson,
The Leaves,
Todd Terry,
Jimmy McGriff,
10cc,
Minor Threat,
Jacques Brel,
The Saints,
Procol Harum,
Stiv Bators,
Morten Harket,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Kinks,
Colin Newman,
John Holt,
Essential Logic,
Ornette Coleman,
Derrick Morgan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
June Days,
Von Mondo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sonic Youth,
Alice Coltrane,
OOIOO,
Fat Boys,
Outsiders,
Janne Schatter,
Trumans Water,
Pylon,
Mark Hollis,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.