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 United States and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 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 Eli Mardock to the grunge 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Crash Course in Science,
Excepter,
Loose Ends,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Wire,
Deepchord,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Massinfluence,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fortunes,
Brothers Johnson,
Soulsonic Force,
Los Fastidios,
Black Flag,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sight & Sound,
Infiniti,
Ituana,
Magma,
Suicide,
Danielle Patucci,
The Modern Lovers,
Brand Nubian,
Brass Construction,
The Fall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Babytalk,
The Raincoats,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Birthday Party,
Blake Baxter,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter and Kerry,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Star Department,
D'Angelo,
Faraquet,
The Standells,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rosa Yemen,
Public Enemy,
The Dead C,
Letta Mbulu,
Gabor Szabo,
Iggy Pop,
The Real Kids,
Ultravox,
Pantaleimon,
Monks,
Donald Byrd,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Motions,
Motorama,
Jeff Mills,
Faust,
Echospace,
Ossler,
Oblivians,
Hasil Adkins,
Zapp,
Visage,
Andrew Hill,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.