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 Korea North and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Al Stewart to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Vainqueur,
Mark Hollis,
Jandek,
DJ Sneak,
Infiniti,
Main Source,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Unwound,
Tubeway Army,
The Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Glenn Branca,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nick Fraelich,
Thompson Twins,
Terry Callier,
Rites of Spring,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Birthday Party,
Soul II Soul,
June of 44,
Surgeon,
Mr. Review,
Throbbing Gristle,
Siglo XX,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ultra Naté,
Underground Resistance,
Todd Terry,
Stiv Bators,
Moby Grape,
Theoretical Girls,
R.M.O.,
Aural Exciters,
Visage,
Ornette Coleman,
Cheater Slicks,
Janne Schatter,
Kas Product,
Marine Girls,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Flag,
Q65,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flipper,
Sonny Sharrock,
Public Image Ltd.,
New York Dolls,
EPMD,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Royal Trux,
Eve St. Jones,
Lakeside,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Smoke,
The Doobie Brothers,
KRS-One,
Cameo,
The Doors,
The Associates,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.