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 Japan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 AZ to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Lightning Bolt,
The Last Poets,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Minor Threat,
Nik Kershaw,
Dark Day,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Happenings,
Eve St. Jones,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Swans,
Wire,
This Heat,
Scan 7,
Severed Heads,
The Fugs,
Carl Craig,
The Neon Judgement,
Yusef Lateef,
Liliput,
Rapeman,
Swans,
Nick Fraelich,
Bronski Beat,
Alison Limerick,
Metal Thangz,
Crispian St. Peters,
Amon Düül II,
Bootsy Collins,
Tomorrow,
The Fuzztones,
Freddie Wadling,
Newcleus,
Livin' Joy,
Half Japanese,
Kevin Saunderson,
Magazine,
Pole,
The United States of America,
The Move,
Minutemen,
Chris & Cosey,
Television Personalities,
Godley & Creme,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ten City,
10cc,
Rotary Connection,
Davy DMX,
Procol Harum,
Todd Terry,
Josef K,
Brass Construction,
The Gories,
Kool Moe Dee,
Negative Approach,
The Beau Brummels,
The Mighty Diamonds,
U.S. Maple,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.