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 Madagascar and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 David Bowie to the grime 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 The Techniques. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Faust,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dark Day,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rites of Spring,
Joe Finger,
John Coltrane,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Aaron Thompson,
Yazoo,
Marvin Gaye,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Dead C,
Cluster,
The Golliwogs,
The Mojo Men,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Moby Grape,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sun City Girls,
the Germs,
Marc Almond,
Massinfluence,
X-102,
The Music Machine,
Public Image Ltd.,
JFA,
The Stooges,
The Happenings,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eddi Front,
FM Einheit,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Trojans,
Scion,
Radio Birdman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Monks,
Jeff Mills,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Moody Blues,
Marshall Jefferson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Stockholm Monsters,
Boogie Down Productions,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
New Age Steppers,
Los Fastidios,
Hardrive,
Godley & Creme,
Qualms,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nick Fraelich,
Stetsasonic,
Gang Gang Dance,
EPMD,
Idris Muhammad,
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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.