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 New Zealand and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
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 theremin 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 Mad Mike to the punk 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Laurel Aitken,
Pere Ubu,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Marmalade,
Sarah Menescal,
Cybotron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
Essential Logic,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kas Product,
Althea and Donna,
10cc,
The Motions,
Drive Like Jehu,
Junior Murvin,
Rotary Connection,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Niagra,
Stetsasonic,
The Evens,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Shoche,
Eve St. Jones,
Fugazi,
the Human League,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lakeside,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Cal Tjader,
Todd Rundgren,
Gerry Rafferty,
Josef K,
Delon & Dalcan,
Loose Ends,
Delta 5,
Rekid,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Last Poets,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mark Hollis,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Skaos,
Neu!,
Animal Collective,
The Durutti Column,
Lyres,
Scion,
Mission of Burma,
Flipper,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Peter & Gordon,
Soft Machine,
Jerry's Kids,
Heaven 17,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.