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 Samoa and from Mexico City.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Robert Palmer 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 Nico to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Litter,
Q and Not U,
The Smoke,
Donald Byrd,
Ronan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Massinfluence,
Gang Gang Dance,
Amon Düül II,
Aswad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erasure,
Fat Boys,
Kenny Larkin,
New York Dolls,
the Sonics,
Lakeside,
Gichy Dan,
Peter & Gordon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Leonard Cohen,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Franke,
Procol Harum,
Jawbox,
Marc Almond,
Agent Orange,
The Stooges,
Scan 7,
Maurizio,
The Moody Blues,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Raincoats,
Brothers Johnson,
The Gap Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
The United States of America,
Von Mondo,
Dark Day,
These Immortal Souls,
X-101,
Laurel Aitken,
Oneida,
John Coltrane,
Pantytec,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Wake,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ken Boothe,
The Slackers,
Todd Rundgren,
Theoretical Girls,
Ludus,
Stereo Dub,
Black Moon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Talk Talk,
Hasil Adkins,
Andrew Hill,
DJ Style,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers, New Age Steppers.
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.