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 Switzerland and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Los Fastidios to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Excepter,
The J.B.'s,
Hasil Adkins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Inner City,
Sparks,
Fad Gadget,
Terry Callier,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Japan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Donald Byrd,
The Standells,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sun Ra,
Big Daddy Kane,
Cameo,
Angry Samoans,
The Gladiators,
Thee Headcoats,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Doobie Brothers,
Slick Rick,
Mad Mike,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camberwell Now,
Depeche Mode,
The Associates,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Loose Ends,
The Gap Band,
Michelle Simonal,
The Five Americans,
Ludus,
Marc Almond,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ralphi Rosario,
Visage,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Funky Four + One,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
This Heat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pantytec,
Cheater Slicks,
Eddi Front,
Man Parrish,
Pylon,
Josef K,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Isaac Hayes,
Hoover,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lalann,
Joyce Sims,
The Blues Magoos,
Ronnie Foster,
Godley & Creme,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.