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 Comoros and from Lyon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar 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 Radiopuhelimet to the rock 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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Lou Reed,
Erykah Badu,
The Busters,
Basic Channel,
The Saints,
AZ,
Stetsasonic,
the Germs,
Yellowson,
L. Decosne,
Fad Gadget,
Mary Jane Girls,
The American Breed,
In Retrospect,
Delta 5,
Soft Machine,
The Golliwogs,
Joyce Sims,
Lungfish,
Desert Stars,
Lucky Dragons,
Anthony Braxton,
Joe Smooth,
Interpol,
Byron Stingily,
Country Teasers,
The Gun Club,
Sparks,
Nas,
Funky Four + One,
Arcadia,
Ultra Naté,
The Gories,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pole,
JFA,
Lalo Schifrin,
Maurizio,
Aloha Tigers,
Liliput,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Grandmaster Flash,
Curtis Mayfield,
Boz Scaggs,
Depeche Mode,
The Litter,
John Foxx,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pantaleimon,
Pussy Galore,
Agitation Free,
The Fire Engines,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Amon Düül II,
Talk Talk,
Black Pus,
Bobby Byrd,
Warren Ellis,
Robert Görl,
Thee Headcoats,
Oblivians,
Unwound,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.