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 Lebanon and from Lyon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 sitar 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 The Sisters of Mercy to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fort Wilson Riot record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jesper Dahlback,
Arab on Radar,
Pierre Henry,
New Order,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stereo Dub,
Accadde A,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Radiohead,
Fluxion,
Joy Division,
Tropical Tobacco,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nirvana,
The Moleskins,
Judy Mowatt,
the Germs,
The Cure,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dark Day,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Aural Exciters,
Todd Rundgren,
Alison Limerick,
Von Mondo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mantronix,
Soft Machine,
June of 44,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Loose Ends,
The Searchers,
Josef K,
The Happenings,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fugazi,
Hashim,
Jacob Miller,
Steve Hackett,
Lalann,
Lakeside,
The Zeros,
Minor Threat,
Adolescents,
Marshall Jefferson,
Second Layer,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sonic Youth,
R.M.O.,
Marine Girls,
The Sound,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Spandau Ballet,
Stockholm Monsters,
China Crisis,
Brass Construction,
The Seeds,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.