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 Chad and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Radio Birdman to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scratch Acid,
Kevin Saunderson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Vogues,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The American Breed,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Half Japanese,
Robert Görl,
Ultimate Spinach,
Stetsasonic,
Rapeman,
Motorama,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Black Sheep,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Litter,
The Leaves,
Public Image Ltd.,
Zero Boys,
Country Teasers,
Faraquet,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
ABBA,
Jimmy McGriff,
Trumans Water,
Aural Exciters,
Pulsallama,
Swans,
Zapp,
Talk Talk,
Grandmaster Flash,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hasil Adkins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Absolute Body Control,
The Toasters,
The New Christs,
Minor Threat,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Arab on Radar,
Bad Manners,
Electric Prunes,
The Fall,
The Associates,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fear,
Howard Jones,
Peter & Gordon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Glenn Branca,
Banda Bassotti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.