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 Armenia and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Count Five 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Supertramp,
Mantronix,
EPMD,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Metal Thangz,
Darondo,
Symarip,
K-Klass,
Isaac Hayes,
Gabor Szabo,
Andrew Hill,
Judy Mowatt,
Nation of Ulysses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Motorama,
Brand Nubian,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Angels of Light,
Crash Course in Science,
Matthew Bourne,
The Stooges,
The Gun Club,
Marc Almond,
JFA,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Iggy Pop,
T.S.O.L.,
Kerrie Biddell,
Hasil Adkins,
Scott Walker,
Wings,
Donald Byrd,
Crooked Eye,
Fat Boys,
The Residents,
Peter and Kerry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lyres,
Lower 48,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Tomorrow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Siglo XX,
Carl Craig,
The Sonics,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Chrome,
UT,
David McCallum,
The Alarm Clocks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Real Kids,
Lalann,
Agent Orange,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Brothers Johnson,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.