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 Ethiopia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator 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 Technova to the disco 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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
World's Most,
Junior Murvin,
Agitation Free,
Underground Resistance,
Theoretical Girls,
Dave Gahan,
Barrington Levy,
Country Teasers,
Mark Hollis,
Massinfluence,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pagans,
Marc Almond,
Smog,
Idris Muhammad,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Boredoms,
Don Cherry,
Pere Ubu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bronski Beat,
Accadde A,
kango's stein massive,
OOIOO,
Radiopuhelimet,
Inner City,
Rotary Connection,
Quadrant,
The Busters,
The Leaves,
The Slackers,
Ossler,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Arab on Radar,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
UT,
Pulsallama,
Mr. Review,
New York Dolls,
The Barracudas,
Sugar Minott,
Siglo XX,
Bizarre Inc.,
Chris Corsano,
10cc,
Cal Tjader,
Amon Düül,
The Kinks,
Stiv Bators,
Kool Moe Dee,
Robert Görl,
DJ Sneak,
Althea and Donna,
Susan Cadogan,
Essential Logic,
Dennis Brown,
The Names,
Sällskapet,
Mo-Dettes,
Zero Boys,
Soulsonic Force,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.