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 San Marino and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 New Order to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sixth Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
The Selecter,
These Immortal Souls,
Echospace,
Wally Richardson,
The Names,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Searchers,
Panda Bear,
Agitation Free,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Junior Murvin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
One Last Wish,
Sun City Girls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Blake Baxter,
The Birthday Party,
The Divine Comedy,
Bob Dylan,
Ludus,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Hardrive,
Joensuu 1685,
Half Japanese,
U.S. Maple,
Barbara Tucker,
Bobby Womack,
Hashim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thee Headcoats,
David Axelrod,
Popol Vuh,
LL Cool J,
Curtis Mayfield,
Thompson Twins,
Marine Girls,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Inner City,
Spoonie Gee,
Charles Mingus,
Graham Central Station,
Franke,
X-Ray Spex,
James Chance & The Contortions,
This Heat,
The Pop Group,
Severed Heads,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Girls At Our Best!,
Q65,
The Blackbyrds,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Essential Logic,
The Mojo Men,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Easy Going,
The Star Department,
MC5,
The Fugs,
Loose Ends,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.