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 Mali and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Rotary Connection to the jazz 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 The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dual Sessions,
Swans,
Altered Images,
Fear,
Crispian St. Peters,
Leonard Cohen,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Excepter,
Quantec,
Q and Not U,
Main Source,
Eve St. Jones,
OOIOO,
Negative Approach,
John Lydon,
Warsaw,
In Retrospect,
Shuggie Otis,
Make Up,
The Busters,
Bobby Womack,
The Black Dice,
Can,
The Grass Roots,
Ituana,
Joyce Sims,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Faust,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Malaria!,
Grey Daturas,
JFA,
David McCallum,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Animal Collective,
R.M.O.,
Blake Baxter,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David Axelrod,
Average White Band,
MC5,
Eric Copeland,
Terry Callier,
Alice Coltrane,
Masters at Work,
Intrusion,
The Raincoats,
Symarip,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pulsallama,
Talk Talk,
T. Rex,
Sandy B,
Boredoms,
Livin' Joy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eddi Front,
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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.
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.