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 Uzbekistan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Amon Düül II to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lucky Dragons,
The New Christs,
Television,
John Cale,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Knickerbockers,
The Raincoats,
Kenny Larkin,
Matthew Halsall,
Visage,
The Kinks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Flamin' Groovies,
OOIOO,
Monolake,
The Walker Brothers,
Porter Ricks,
Harmonia,
Niagra,
Inner City,
The Doobie Brothers,
Television Personalities,
Matthew Bourne,
Boredoms,
Sonic Youth,
Robert Hood,
The Fuzztones,
Slick Rick,
Warsaw,
The Associates,
Ossler,
Brothers Johnson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hoover,
Bobby Sherman,
David McCallum,
Groovy Waters,
The Star Department,
Grauzone,
The Remains,
Section 25,
The Grass Roots,
Morten Harket,
Jeff Lynne,
Anakelly,
The Move,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alphaville,
ABBA,
Blake Baxter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Monks,
H. Thieme,
Sex Pistols,
The American Breed,
A Certain Ratio,
Procol Harum,
Ken Boothe,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.