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 Nigeria and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 spring reverb 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 The Motions 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Symarip,
R.M.O.,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Quadrant,
Eve St. Jones,
Prince Buster,
Wolf Eyes,
H. Thieme,
Basic Channel,
Joey Negro,
The Selecter,
New Order,
Model 500,
T.S.O.L.,
The Slits,
Nas,
Gichy Dan,
Adolescents,
The Evens,
Hoover,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Babytalk,
Supertramp,
Roxy Music,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tropical Tobacco,
Loose Ends,
Lakeside,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rod Modell,
Ituana,
Joe Smooth,
Jandek,
Franke,
Maurizio,
F. McDonald,
Freddie Wadling,
Animal Collective,
Talk Talk,
Marine Girls,
Sandy B,
The Fire Engines,
The Angels of Light,
The Cramps,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Busters,
Eddi Front,
Visage,
Q65,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nation of Ulysses,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Monochrome Set,
Roger Hodgson,
The United States of America,
The American Breed,
Kayak,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.