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 Ethiopia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Donald Fagen 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Albert Ayler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Q and Not U,
Crispy Ambulance,
Joyce Sims,
Nirvana,
Quadrant,
Andrew Hill,
Black Pus,
The Fuzztones,
Thee Headcoats,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Robert Hood,
The Modern Lovers,
Juan Atkins,
The Gladiators,
F. McDonald,
Electric Prunes,
Essential Logic,
Derrick May,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Red Krayola,
David Bowie,
Joe Finger,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Qualms,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Isaac Hayes,
Bad Manners,
Warren Ellis,
The Remains,
Jeff Mills,
The Wake,
The Offenders,
Janne Schatter,
Sugar Minott,
The Beau Brummels,
Ice-T,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The J.B.'s,
Derrick Morgan,
Little Man,
Godley & Creme,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Slick Rick,
The Moody Blues,
Donny Hathaway,
Average White Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Public Enemy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The American Breed,
Visage,
The Busters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mission of Burma,
Crime,
Aloha Tigers,
The Human League,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.