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 Jordan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 guitar 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glenn Branca record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
B.T. Express,
Moss Icon,
Unrelated Segments,
Guru Guru,
The Saints,
Negative Approach,
Mantronix,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Remains,
Todd Terry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Young Rascals,
Mission of Burma,
The Dirtbombs,
Josef K,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Albert Ayler,
John Lydon,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Slits,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marc Almond,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
L. Decosne,
The Fugs,
Lower 48,
Bobby Sherman,
One Last Wish,
the Swans,
Adolescents,
The Alarm Clocks,
Saccharine Trust,
Danielle Patucci,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Subhumans,
Toni Rubio,
Skarface,
Minor Threat,
Kenny Larkin,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Mojo Men,
The Associates,
Outsiders,
K-Klass,
H. Thieme,
Black Moon,
Yellowson,
Joe Finger,
Lou Reed,
Talk Talk,
Dawn Penn,
The Five Americans,
Pharoah Sanders,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sällskapet,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.