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 Dominica and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Chris & Cosey to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
David Axelrod,
Silicon Teens,
Wasted Youth,
Stereo Dub,
Agent Orange,
The Cure,
Absolute Body Control,
Peter and Kerry,
The Sonics,
The Doobie Brothers,
Simply Red,
Jandek,
Country Teasers,
The Red Krayola,
The Skatalites,
Masters at Work,
Parry Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Wake,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed,
Lindisfarne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nirvana,
Basic Channel,
Depeche Mode,
Soul II Soul,
Crispy Ambulance,
Motorama,
a-ha,
The Dead C,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pet Shop Boys,
Funky Four + One,
Todd Rundgren,
Sun City Girls,
Mandrill,
Subhumans,
Jerry's Kids,
Scan 7,
Index,
Derrick Morgan,
Joensuu 1685,
Al Stewart,
John Lydon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Unwound,
Delta 5,
Ornette Coleman,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pierre Henry,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Procol Harum,
Scrapy,
Dave Gahan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Adolescents,
Susan Cadogan,
The Human League,
Eli Mardock,
Johnny Osbourne,
Morten Harket,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.