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 Laos and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Knickerbockers to the grunge 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Mr. Review tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Neil Young,
Make Up,
Wasted Youth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Colin Newman,
Radiopuhelimet,
Absolute Body Control,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Robert Hood,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camouflage,
Rapeman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joensuu 1685,
Black Moon,
Byron Stingily,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
AZ,
Leonard Cohen,
Alice Coltrane,
Neu!,
Schoolly D,
The Black Dice,
Lightning Bolt,
The Mojo Men,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Crime,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rakim,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bad Manners,
Lalo Schifrin,
D'Angelo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tubeway Army,
Qualms,
8 Eyed Spy,
Yusef Lateef,
Yazoo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rekid,
the Slits,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kerrie Biddell,
Electric Prunes,
Amon Düül II,
Skriet,
Aswad,
Jawbox,
The Dave Clark Five,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Television Personalities,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Flash Fearless,
The Angels of Light,
Ornette Coleman,
Danielle Patucci,
Television, Television, Television, Television.
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.