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 France and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 Grey Daturas to the funk 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Nils Olav,
Bobby Womack,
Royal Trux,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Black Flag,
Fad Gadget,
Barry Ungar,
Funky Four + One,
Radiohead,
Babytalk,
Johnny Clarke,
Aural Exciters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siglo XX,
Josef K,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Germs,
Erasure,
Eric Dolphy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hashim,
Sixth Finger,
Soft Machine,
Excepter,
Tommy Roe,
Smog,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Bar-Kays,
David McCallum,
The Moleskins,
Peter and Kerry,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
D'Angelo,
Agent Orange,
Grauzone,
Danielle Patucci,
Lee Hazlewood,
ABBA,
Saccharine Trust,
Massinfluence,
Warren Ellis,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The New Christs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Groovy Waters,
Chrome,
The Gories,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
KRS-One,
Marmalade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marvin Gaye,
Althea and Donna,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pussy Galore,
Idris Muhammad,
the Soft Cell,
David Axelrod,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jawbox,
Quantec,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade.
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.