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 Mongolia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 marimba 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 Khruangbin to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
The Sonics,
Moebius,
Al Stewart,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bronski Beat,
D'Angelo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vladislav Delay,
the Bar-Kays,
Colin Newman,
Crash Course in Science,
Bush Tetras,
Index,
Procol Harum,
Ituana,
Donald Byrd,
Gregory Isaacs,
Barrington Levy,
Michelle Simonal,
FM Einheit,
Donny Hathaway,
Jawbox,
Roy Ayers,
The Divine Comedy,
The Electric Prunes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Smiths,
Fat Boys,
Simply Red,
Warsaw,
Lou Reed,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nirvana,
Grandmaster Flash,
Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rosa Yemen,
This Heat,
Marc Almond,
The Neon Judgement,
the Association,
Yazoo,
Lou Christie,
Parry Music,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joey Negro,
Gang of Four,
Minutemen,
Isaac Hayes,
Flipper,
Banda Bassotti,
Blossom Toes,
the Swans,
The Searchers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.