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 Tanzania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Radiopuhelimet to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Mo-Dettes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Audionom,
Susan Cadogan,
Beasts of Bourbon,
James White and The Blacks,
The Victims,
Pantytec,
The Seeds,
Piero Umiliani,
cv313,
Trumans Water,
Mission of Burma,
Rapeman,
Kayak,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sällskapet,
Faraquet,
Grandmaster Flash,
Wolf Eyes,
Cluster,
Ten City,
Theoretical Girls,
Television,
Q65,
The Electric Prunes,
Sun City Girls,
Dennis Brown,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Leonard Cohen,
Neu!,
Flash Fearless,
Fad Gadget,
Organ,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Velvet Underground,
Rekid,
Girls At Our Best!,
PIL,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Vogues,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Siglo XX,
The Fugs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Roy Ayers,
ABBA,
Scientists,
The Pretty Things,
Crispian St. Peters,
John Foxx,
Davy DMX,
The Moleskins,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Black Bananas,
Urselle,
Cheater Slicks,
The Searchers,
The Fortunes,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.