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 Gambia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Guru Guru to the rap 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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
The Young Rascals,
Black Moon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Newcleus,
Gong,
The Knickerbockers,
Liliput,
Quando Quango,
Scott Walker,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Selecter,
Arthur Verocai,
John Foxx,
Public Enemy,
The Mummies,
Archie Shepp,
Glenn Branca,
Reuben Wilson,
The Cramps,
Procol Harum,
The Evens,
Underground Resistance,
Gang of Four,
Ken Boothe,
Tomorrow,
The Fugs,
H. Thieme,
The Birthday Party,
8 Eyed Spy,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ludus,
The Zeros,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ronnie Foster,
Robert Görl,
Johnny Osbourne,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Angels of Light,
Easy Going,
A Certain Ratio,
Yaz,
the Sonics,
Sparks,
Faraquet,
Scrapy,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Smiths,
The Count Five,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Stooges,
Peter & Gordon,
Prince Buster,
The Standells,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Alton Ellis,
Grey Daturas,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Suicide,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.