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 Cambodia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 theremin 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 Joy Division to the punk 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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
The Detroit Cobras,
Angry Samoans,
Ituana,
Ohio Players,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mark Hollis,
Boz Scaggs,
Kerri Chandler,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Aswad,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Robert Hood,
The Young Rascals,
Eve St. Jones,
Peter & Gordon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Durutti Column,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nas,
Zapp,
Flipper,
Anakelly,
Soulsonic Force,
Oblivians,
The Music Machine,
The Pop Group,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Cramps,
Tubeway Army,
La Düsseldorf,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Blackbyrds,
Erasure,
Jacques Brel,
Danielle Patucci,
Letta Mbulu,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cal Tjader,
Don Cherry,
Eurythmics,
Jandek,
Ponytail,
T.S.O.L.,
Boredoms,
Lee Hazlewood,
John Holt,
The Moleskins,
Joey Negro,
David Axelrod,
Basic Channel,
Carl Craig,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Soft Cell,
Main Source,
Roxette,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Barracudas,
Smog,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sister Nancy,
The Monochrome Set,
Excepter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.