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 Cameroon and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 marimba 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 Hot Snakes to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Infiniti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Kinks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cramps,
Cal Tjader,
DNA,
June Days,
Infiniti,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Neu!,
Ultravox,
Blossom Toes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nirvana,
Eric Copeland,
La Düsseldorf,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Moleskins,
Qualms,
David Axelrod,
Lyres,
Jerry's Kids,
Bad Manners,
Nico,
The Remains,
Rotary Connection,
Rapeman,
Inner City,
The Neon Judgement,
Trumans Water,
Scion,
Desert Stars,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Faraquet,
Aaron Thompson,
Section 25,
Little Man,
China Crisis,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Alarm Clocks,
MDC,
Scientists,
Moby Grape,
Public Image Ltd.,
Urselle,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marc Almond,
Amon Düül II,
Terrestrial Tones,
Liliput,
Severed Heads,
Sparks,
Hoover,
Nik Kershaw,
Marvin Gaye,
Unwound,
Sound Behaviour,
ABBA,
The Birthday Party,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.