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 Malaysia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 MDC to the techno 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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Eric Dolphy,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Human League,
Symarip,
The Flesh Eaters,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Todd Terry,
The Fall,
Mark Hollis,
Rakim,
The Doors,
Ponytail,
The Sonics,
Stiv Bators,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hot Snakes,
The Velvet Underground,
Subhumans,
Nas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aaron Thompson,
Matthew Halsall,
Faraquet,
Royal Trux,
Scientists,
Joe Finger,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Underground Resistance,
Crooked Eye,
Public Image Ltd.,
Easy Going,
Sound Behaviour,
Whodini,
Theoretical Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joensuu 1685,
Robert Görl,
the Bar-Kays,
Janne Schatter,
The Vogues,
Banda Bassotti,
Susan Cadogan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Piero Umiliani,
The Music Machine,
Bobby Byrd,
Black Sheep,
Bill Near,
the Germs,
cv313,
Maleditus Sound,
Desert Stars,
Alison Limerick,
David Axelrod,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Neil Young,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.