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 Egypt and from Toronto.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Glambeats Corp.,
Negative Approach,
Joensuu 1685,
Slave,
MC5,
The Dave Clark Five,
Massinfluence,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Quando Quango,
Judy Mowatt,
Swans,
Visage,
Bad Manners,
The Raincoats,
June of 44,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rapeman,
Marc Almond,
Scratch Acid,
Funky Four + One,
Johnny Clarke,
Bobby Sherman,
Black Sheep,
Peter & Gordon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Essential Logic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rotary Connection,
JFA,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Music Machine,
The Cowsills,
Unrelated Segments,
Kaleidoscope,
Terry Callier,
Neil Young,
Sonic Youth,
Iggy Pop,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eli Mardock,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mantronix,
La Düsseldorf,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Crispy Ambulance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Idris Muhammad,
Lebanon Hanover,
Johnny Osbourne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Khruangbin,
Surgeon,
Laurel Aitken,
The Wake,
Sight & Sound,
Harmonia,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.