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 Guinea and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Khruangbin,
Archie Shepp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Livin' Joy,
Tim Buckley,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Black Sheep,
Spoonie Gee,
D'Angelo,
James White and The Blacks,
The Names,
Goldenarms,
Japan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Wally Richardson,
10cc,
Saccharine Trust,
Todd Rundgren,
Pole,
Slave,
The J.B.'s,
Average White Band,
The Dirtbombs,
David Bowie,
Kool Moe Dee,
Blossom Toes,
Letta Mbulu,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ronan,
Rosa Yemen,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ohio Players,
Tropical Tobacco,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
DJ Style,
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pharoah Sanders,
Erasure,
Rapeman,
Idris Muhammad,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dave Gahan,
Rekid,
Babytalk,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Echospace,
Marvin Gaye,
Colin Newman,
Anakelly,
Barry Ungar,
The Moleskins,
Ludus,
Soulsonic Force,
Todd Terry,
The Vogues,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kas Product,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.