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 Guatemala and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Heaven 17 to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cabaret Voltaire. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Gladiators,
David Bowie,
Visage,
The Selecter,
F. McDonald,
Bush Tetras,
Cheater Slicks,
Urselle,
Los Fastidios,
China Crisis,
Rapeman,
Anakelly,
The American Breed,
Al Stewart,
Franke,
The Gap Band,
Suburban Knight,
The Blackbyrds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ludus,
Ken Boothe,
Agitation Free,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Isaac Hayes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Divine Comedy,
Drexciya,
Reagan Youth,
Alison Limerick,
David McCallum,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Fortunes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Zero Boys,
Neu!,
Barry Ungar,
Aaron Thompson,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Motions,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Amon Düül II,
Laurel Aitken,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Junior Murvin,
Eric Dolphy,
Public Image Ltd.,
K-Klass,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Smog,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Maurizio,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.