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 Albania and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Boogie Down Productions 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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barrington Levy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
The Modern Lovers,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Moleskins,
Boredoms,
CMW,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Derrick Morgan,
Monolake,
Heaven 17,
Yazoo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Residents,
Loose Ends,
Bootsy Collins,
Altered Images,
The Martian,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rakim,
Anthony Braxton,
ABBA,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Grass Roots,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Harry Pussy,
Eden Ahbez,
Bizarre Inc.,
Eddi Front,
Suburban Knight,
Crooked Eye,
MC5,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Leonard Cohen,
Aswad,
Joe Smooth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kenny Larkin,
Prince Buster,
Desert Stars,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joy Division,
Pharoah Sanders,
Buzzcocks,
Hashim,
Skarface,
Zero Boys,
The Electric Prunes,
Sex Pistols,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Sonics,
Minnie Riperton,
Sonny Sharrock,
David Axelrod,
The Invisible,
kango's stein massive,
Pylon,
Byron Stingily,
Zapp,
Al Stewart,
Cymande,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.