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 Iran and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lucky Dragons to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
Unrelated Segments,
Pulsallama,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Misunderstood,
The Offenders,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pylon,
Sam Rivers,
Brothers Johnson,
The Blues Magoos,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
H. Thieme,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marc Almond,
Boz Scaggs,
the Soft Cell,
Symarip,
Ornette Coleman,
The Black Dice,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scott Walker,
Reuben Wilson,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Fania All-Stars,
The J.B.'s,
Siglo XX,
Minutemen,
Fela Kuti,
Pierre Henry,
Sound Behaviour,
Erykah Badu,
Oneida,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Thee Headcoats,
Johnny Clarke,
Wings,
China Crisis,
U.S. Maple,
Cal Tjader,
The Human League,
Pagans,
Todd Terry,
Grauzone,
This Heat,
The Tremeloes,
10cc,
Yellowson,
Robert Görl,
Maurizio,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kaleidoscope,
Fugazi,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
LL Cool J,
Kurtis Blow,
The Move,
Radiopuhelimet,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.