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 Turkey and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 David McCallum to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Jacob Miller,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Derrick Morgan,
Qualms,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Slick Rick,
Eddi Front,
Minnie Riperton,
The Litter,
the Germs,
Unwound,
Spoonie Gee,
PIL,
Radiopuhelimet,
These Immortal Souls,
Albert Ayler,
Goldenarms,
The Durutti Column,
Black Moon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Funky Four + One,
Deepchord,
Soul II Soul,
Hot Snakes,
Junior Murvin,
the Association,
Pole,
Byron Stingily,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Terrestrial Tones,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultravox,
Flamin' Groovies,
Easy Going,
Arthur Verocai,
Mo-Dettes,
The Last Poets,
The Buckinghams,
Heaven 17,
Connie Case,
Nirvana,
Excepter,
New York Dolls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Finger,
Cheater Slicks,
Gabor Szabo,
Pantaleimon,
Joey Negro,
Faraquet,
Tim Buckley,
Ronnie Foster,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Deadbeat,
John Holt,
Neil Young,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Model 500,
Arab on Radar,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.