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 Mali and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Bologna and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Public Image Ltd. to the rap 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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Real Kids,
Amon Düül II,
The Pop Group,
Harmonia,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bauhaus,
Alice Coltrane,
Scott Walker,
Niagra,
Alphaville,
Sandy B,
The Remains,
Jimmy McGriff,
K-Klass,
the Normal,
Terrestrial Tones,
Index,
Parry Music,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Johnny Osbourne,
Groovy Waters,
Glenn Branca,
The Fall,
Neu!,
The Gap Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eden Ahbez,
Roger Hodgson,
Piero Umiliani,
David Axelrod,
The Mojo Men,
The Durutti Column,
The Fire Engines,
Grandmaster Flash,
Warren Ellis,
The Velvet Underground,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
MC5,
The Wake,
Sun City Girls,
Mars,
Pantaleimon,
MDC,
KRS-One,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boogie Down Productions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cluster,
New Order,
The Gun Club,
Yaz,
Cybotron,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Crime,
Stereo Dub,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
DNA,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cymande,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.