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 Brunei and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Faust to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Delon & Dalcan,
The United States of America,
Duran Duran,
MDC,
Byron Stingily,
Adolescents,
Simply Red,
Saccharine Trust,
Arab on Radar,
Massinfluence,
Marmalade,
Little Man,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
kango's stein massive,
Barbara Tucker,
The Sonics,
A Certain Ratio,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Fortunes,
LL Cool J,
Pulsallama,
cv313,
CMW,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
OOIOO,
Average White Band,
Jeff Mills,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dave Gahan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pantaleimon,
Sister Nancy,
Amon Düül,
Camouflage,
Fela Kuti,
Moss Icon,
The Gladiators,
the Bar-Kays,
Royal Trux,
The Searchers,
Barrington Levy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kerri Chandler,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sound Behaviour,
Magma,
The Knickerbockers,
Ornette Coleman,
Aswad,
Yusef Lateef,
Ultra Naté,
Moebius,
Roxy Music,
Juan Atkins,
Tom Boy,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.