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 United States and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Kaleidoscope to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Byron Stingily,
Jesper Dahlback,
Y Pants,
Sun Ra,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roy Ayers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Japan,
The Count Five,
Rotary Connection,
The Star Department,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pagans,
Dual Sessions,
Sonic Youth,
Darondo,
A Certain Ratio,
K-Klass,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
MDC,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Motorama,
Mars,
Terrestrial Tones,
Alison Limerick,
B.T. Express,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yaz,
Agent Orange,
Letta Mbulu,
The Slackers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Infiniti,
The Martian,
Sandy B,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Raincoats,
Television,
Unrelated Segments,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fat Boys,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Matthew Bourne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Cybotron,
Joensuu 1685,
Graham Central Station,
X-101,
Piero Umiliani,
The Seeds,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Golliwogs,
Ossler,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.