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 Ireland and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 David Bowie 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 Essential Logic to the disco 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marmalade,
Yellowson,
Jerry's Kids,
Camberwell Now,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
DNA,
Bootsy Collins,
Rapeman,
Minny Pops,
Eric Copeland,
R.M.O.,
Wally Richardson,
Subhumans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bobby Byrd,
Maurizio,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joe Smooth,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bill Near,
Pantaleimon,
Funkadelic,
Sparks,
Peter and Kerry,
MC5,
Chris Corsano,
The Angels of Light,
Youth Brigade,
Schoolly D,
the Association,
Malaria!,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joey Negro,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slackers,
Oblivians,
The Pretty Things,
Delta 5,
Liliput,
New York Dolls,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Saccharine Trust,
Magma,
F. McDonald,
Marcia Griffiths,
Little Man,
Graham Central Station,
Skaos,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Man Eating Sloth,
Warsaw,
Rotary Connection,
Pharoah Sanders,
Susan Cadogan,
The Moleskins,
Jawbox,
John Foxx,
The Blues Magoos,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Rufus Thomas,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.