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 Thailand and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 harpsichord 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 Angry Samoans 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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
The Human League,
Groovy Waters,
the Bar-Kays,
Surgeon,
LL Cool J,
Soft Machine,
Todd Rundgren,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Shuggie Otis,
Michelle Simonal,
Moby Grape,
Lindisfarne,
Niagra,
The Happenings,
Rekid,
Patti Smith,
Model 500,
Simply Red,
Gang Gang Dance,
Popol Vuh,
Pylon,
Sex Pistols,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Fear,
Amon Düül,
John Cale,
The Real Kids,
Zapp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fluxion,
Marmalade,
The Vogues,
Babytalk,
Cecil Taylor,
Khruangbin,
Visage,
Saccharine Trust,
Bill Near,
Maleditus Sound,
Suicide,
Amazonics,
Aloha Tigers,
New Age Steppers,
Gang Starr,
Audionom,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Max Romeo,
Don Cherry,
Stereo Dub,
The Grass Roots,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marcia Griffiths,
Essential Logic,
Warren Ellis,
The Mojo Men,
The Gun Club,
Agent Orange,
Davy DMX,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sixth Finger,
Altered Images,
Yellowson,
Arcadia,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.