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 Madagascar and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Birthday Party to the funk 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Wally Richardson,
The Skatalites,
Kayak,
Nick Fraelich,
Soft Machine,
Deakin,
Hasil Adkins,
Lebanon Hanover,
Anakelly,
Banda Bassotti,
E-Dancer,
The Cramps,
Yaz,
These Immortal Souls,
K-Klass,
Bobby Womack,
Marvin Gaye,
The Birthday Party,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Subhumans,
Henry Cow,
The Invisible,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kas Product,
Graham Central Station,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Shoche,
Loose Ends,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Moody Blues,
Depeche Mode,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sam Rivers,
Kenny Larkin,
Unwound,
Radiopuhelimet,
Animal Collective,
The Real Kids,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fluxion,
cv313,
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Buckinghams,
Wire,
Mr. Review,
The Dirtbombs,
The Modern Lovers,
Outsiders,
Stockholm Monsters,
Funkadelic,
Wings,
Byron Stingily,
Letta Mbulu,
Camberwell Now,
Symarip,
A Certain Ratio,
Charles Mingus,
Eric Dolphy,
Harmonia,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
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.