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 Korea South and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the rock 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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
UT,
The Gories,
Tommy Roe,
Swell Maps,
Sandy B,
Joy Division,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Mojo Men,
Pantytec,
Public Enemy,
Royal Trux,
The Smiths,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mary Jane Girls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Erasure,
Byron Stingily,
Altered Images,
Moebius,
48th St. Collective,
Junior Murvin,
Camberwell Now,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Zero Boys,
Tres Demented,
Groovy Waters,
The Associates,
Rapeman,
The Offenders,
Lungfish,
Godley & Creme,
Gabor Szabo,
Suicide,
Supertramp,
Tropical Tobacco,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sun Ra,
Kayak,
Funkadelic,
Hashim,
Lou Christie,
JFA,
Bobby Sherman,
Delta 5,
Main Source,
Bill Wells,
Neil Young,
Cecil Taylor,
Hoover,
T. Rex,
Bang On A Can,
Ornette Coleman,
Subhumans,
Brick,
Scott Walker,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
MDC,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.