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 Iceland and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 synthesizer 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 Darondo to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Blossom Toes,
Johnny Osbourne,
Curtis Mayfield,
Barbara Tucker,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bizarre Inc.,
Donny Hathaway,
Black Moon,
The Divine Comedy,
Sandy B,
Banda Bassotti,
Gong,
Pantaleimon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Litter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Franke,
Delon & Dalcan,
Livin' Joy,
Derrick Morgan,
The Angels of Light,
Scientists,
Maurizio,
Eurythmics,
Lebanon Hanover,
Khruangbin,
Tres Demented,
Mandrill,
Black Sheep,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Groovy Waters,
Matthew Bourne,
The Five Americans,
The Victims,
In Retrospect,
Trumans Water,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wings,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pierre Henry,
Porter Ricks,
Young Marble Giants,
The Music Machine,
Au Pairs,
Rotary Connection,
Half Japanese,
World's Most,
Skaos,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stiv Bators,
Visage,
Siglo XX,
Kas Product,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jerry's Kids,
Gang Gang Dance,
Yellowson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.