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 Madagascar and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Delta 5 to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Soft Machine,
Babytalk,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
PIL,
Fluxion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Kenny Larkin,
Tommy Roe,
These Immortal Souls,
Scrapy,
John Foxx,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sun Ra,
Von Mondo,
Anakelly,
The Moleskins,
Theoretical Girls,
Yazoo,
Avey Tare,
Barrington Levy,
Hardrive,
Technova,
The Fall,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ultra Naté,
Fad Gadget,
Supertramp,
China Crisis,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Brothers Johnson,
In Retrospect,
Aloha Tigers,
Black Moon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Gap Band,
Sun City Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bootsy Collins,
John Holt,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Severed Heads,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fela Kuti,
The Techniques,
The Cramps,
Livin' Joy,
Sarah Menescal,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Wasted Youth,
Scientists,
UT,
The Raincoats,
Scratch Acid,
Pharoah Sanders,
Aswad,
Wire,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wings,
Television,
Organ,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.