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 China and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Oneida to the disco 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
The American Breed,
Grey Daturas,
Gabor Szabo,
Radiohead,
Oneida,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scion,
Minny Pops,
Black Flag,
China Crisis,
Kenny Larkin,
H. Thieme,
Goldenarms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Minnie Riperton,
Technova,
Drexciya,
The Gladiators,
Lyres,
Sound Behaviour,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hoover,
The Human League,
Mars,
New Order,
The Velvet Underground,
the Swans,
Japan,
The Black Dice,
Liliput,
Bluetip,
Thee Headcoats,
The Smiths,
Amon Düül,
Eden Ahbez,
Agent Orange,
Electric Prunes,
Sex Pistols,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fatback Band,
The Gap Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rod Modell,
X-102,
Television,
Mantronix,
Soul II Soul,
Crime,
The Index,
Rosa Yemen,
Absolute Body Control,
Groovy Waters,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Harmonia,
Lakeside,
The Saints,
Maurizio,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.