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 Somalia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Manila and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ossler to the punk 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Archie Shepp,
Soft Machine,
Blossom Toes,
Babytalk,
Morten Harket,
Jeff Lynne,
Slave,
Marshall Jefferson,
Organ,
Public Image Ltd.,
Shuggie Otis,
Massinfluence,
X-Ray Spex,
Alton Ellis,
The Selecter,
June Days,
Aswad,
UT,
The Associates,
Connie Case,
Stiv Bators,
Godley & Creme,
Ice-T,
Maleditus Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Underground Resistance,
Al Stewart,
B.T. Express,
E-Dancer,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Tremeloes,
Erykah Badu,
the Slits,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Heaven 17,
Ralphi Rosario,
Mars,
Cheater Slicks,
Yusef Lateef,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Techniques,
Charles Mingus,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mark Hollis,
Davy DMX,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Mojo Men,
Anakelly,
The Alarm Clocks,
In Retrospect,
Magma,
Tommy Roe,
The Fall,
Nas,
This Heat,
The Walker Brothers,
Tomorrow,
Thee Headcoats,
Jandek,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.