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 Romania and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ludus to the jazz 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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bobby Byrd,
The Zeros,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Grass Roots,
the Association,
Black Bananas,
Piero Umiliani,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Public Image Ltd.,
Davy DMX,
Agent Orange,
Patti Smith,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
John Coltrane,
Vainqueur,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pet Shop Boys,
Carl Craig,
Flipper,
Gabor Szabo,
Arcadia,
Negative Approach,
Sugar Minott,
the Slits,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kool Moe Dee,
Barrington Levy,
Thee Headcoats,
K-Klass,
Newcleus,
David Bowie,
The Birthday Party,
Mr. Review,
Eurythmics,
Aaron Thompson,
The Fuzztones,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tres Demented,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Morten Harket,
Drexciya,
Massinfluence,
Joyce Sims,
Sound Behaviour,
The Blackbyrds,
The Names,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jeff Lynne,
Jawbox,
Max Romeo,
Banda Bassotti,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Joe Smooth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.