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 Lithuania and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 David Bowie 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 Sisters of Mercy to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
The Black Dice,
Cymande,
Ken Boothe,
Panda Bear,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eddi Front,
Althea and Donna,
Section 25,
The Saints,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soulsonic Force,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bad Manners,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Stiv Bators,
Bobby Sherman,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Skarface,
Basic Channel,
Brothers Johnson,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Prince Buster,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lalann,
Kerrie Biddell,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
X-Ray Spex,
Fear,
KRS-One,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Reagan Youth,
MC5,
Lyres,
One Last Wish,
Negative Approach,
UT,
D'Angelo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Siglo XX,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Curtis Mayfield,
The Gap Band,
Popol Vuh,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Faust,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scion,
Nirvana,
China Crisis,
T.S.O.L.,
Mandrill,
Amazonics,
Agent Orange,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ponytail,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The J.B.'s,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.