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 Ethiopia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Wings to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
D'Angelo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ken Boothe,
Swans,
The Shadows of Knight,
Delon & Dalcan,
Drexciya,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Motorama,
MC5,
Agitation Free,
Nils Olav,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Pierre Henry,
The Gladiators,
The Zeros,
R.M.O.,
Mark Hollis,
Eden Ahbez,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Derrick Morgan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lyres,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Robert Hood,
Jeff Mills,
Young Marble Giants,
Negative Approach,
The Tremeloes,
Magazine,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Raincoats,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Modern Lovers,
DJ Style,
Trumans Water,
Rekid,
Roxy Music,
Brass Construction,
The Gories,
Crooked Eye,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Erykah Badu,
Erasure,
Absolute Body Control,
Audionom,
Lindisfarne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Dirtbombs,
Groovy Waters,
ABBA,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ohio Players,
Y Pants,
Cybotron,
Eli Mardock,
Fluxion,
The Grass Roots,
the Association,
Von Mondo,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.