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 Cuba and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 marimba 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the rap 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
the Association,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cecil Taylor,
Negative Approach,
D'Angelo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Remains,
Quantec,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Matthew Bourne,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Human League,
Warren Ellis,
The Gun Club,
Chrome,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mo-Dettes,
48th St. Collective,
Wire,
Juan Atkins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Walker Brothers,
Jeff Mills,
Aswad,
Bang On A Can,
Banda Bassotti,
Swans,
Eurythmics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
A Certain Ratio,
The Standells,
Robert Görl,
Massinfluence,
Robert Hood,
Sam Rivers,
Albert Ayler,
JFA,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Matthew Halsall,
Minnie Riperton,
Desert Stars,
The Kinks,
Von Mondo,
Dave Gahan,
Steve Hackett,
The Gladiators,
Erasure,
Gil Scott Heron,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gabor Szabo,
Pantaleimon,
Con Funk Shun,
The Techniques,
Mary Jane Girls,
Interpol,
The Neon Judgement,
Derrick May,
Sonny Sharrock,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fat Boys,
The Stooges,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.