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 Gabon and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Taipei.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Hoover to the rap 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Ice-T,
The Raincoats,
One Last Wish,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Idris Muhammad,
Symarip,
Lou Christie,
Amazonics,
The Happenings,
Gerry Rafferty,
La Düsseldorf,
Jeff Lynne,
Negative Approach,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Darondo,
Wings,
Metal Thangz,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Swell Maps,
Steve Hackett,
The Beau Brummels,
Kayak,
Cal Tjader,
Fela Kuti,
Whodini,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Fugs,
Matthew Halsall,
PIL,
The Sonics,
The Invisible,
Goldenarms,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bobby Womack,
Interpol,
Cymande,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Neon Judgement,
Visage,
Thompson Twins,
The Five Americans,
The Golliwogs,
ABC,
Gang of Four,
Joensuu 1685,
Brick,
Soul II Soul,
Josef K,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nation of Ulysses,
Public Enemy,
Mark Hollis,
Basic Channel,
John Cale,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eurythmics,
Peter & Gordon,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.