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 Sweden and from Hong Kong.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Mary Jane Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
the Human League,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Toasters,
Pole,
the Bar-Kays,
Ossler,
Moss Icon,
The Beau Brummels,
Groovy Waters,
Accadde A,
The Stooges,
Fluxion,
The Sonics,
Slave,
Heaven 17,
DJ Sneak,
Gang Gang Dance,
Big Daddy Kane,
Johnny Osbourne,
Swans,
H. Thieme,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lucky Dragons,
Main Source,
Metal Thangz,
Judy Mowatt,
Tomorrow,
The Walker Brothers,
Anthony Braxton,
Suicide,
Glenn Branca,
The Moleskins,
Kurtis Blow,
Thompson Twins,
Ultra Naté,
David McCallum,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tommy Roe,
Camouflage,
These Immortal Souls,
Minutemen,
The Doors,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Roxette,
The Monochrome Set,
Man Parrish,
B.T. Express,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Association,
Rites of Spring,
Sam Rivers,
Ponytail,
Country Teasers,
Brand Nubian,
Lungfish,
World's Most,
Technova,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.