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 Poland and from Delhi.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and New York.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Dark Day to the punk 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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 Mighty Diamonds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faust,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Aaron Thompson,
8 Eyed Spy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pierre Henry,
Aswad,
Scott Walker,
Bluetip,
Urselle,
Rosa Yemen,
Model 500,
the Normal,
Severed Heads,
Warsaw,
Anthony Braxton,
Shoche,
Henry Cow,
Smog,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jesper Dahlback,
L. Decosne,
Slave,
Procol Harum,
Parry Music,
Peter & Gordon,
Tomorrow,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sonic Youth,
The Offenders,
Tears for Fears,
Hashim,
Mr. Review,
Jerry's Kids,
Public Enemy,
Boredoms,
Gang Green,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Gories,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dawn Penn,
Jawbox,
Roy Ayers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jandek,
Trumans Water,
The Modern Lovers,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Trojans,
Girls At Our Best!,
David Axelrod,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dark Day,
Dorothy Ashby,
Man Parrish,
Sight & Sound,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sällskapet,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.