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 Australia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 the Human League to the electroclash 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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
James White and The Blacks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Reuben Wilson,
Thompson Twins,
World's Most,
Minny Pops,
Robert Wyatt,
Scion,
Carl Craig,
Kerri Chandler,
Loose Ends,
Ice-T,
Brick,
Ronnie Foster,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Darondo,
Babytalk,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Prince Buster,
Visage,
Eric Copeland,
Cecil Taylor,
Au Pairs,
The Electric Prunes,
Depeche Mode,
Janne Schatter,
Faraquet,
Bobby Womack,
New Order,
Rosa Yemen,
The Monochrome Set,
Jeff Mills,
The Five Americans,
Faust,
Grauzone,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ludus,
Mad Mike,
a-ha,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Divine Comedy,
Shuggie Otis,
DNA,
ABBA,
The Real Kids,
Easy Going,
The Fortunes,
Dave Gahan,
The Evens,
Chrome,
Boogie Down Productions,
Delta 5,
Von Mondo,
Dual Sessions,
Josef K,
Guru Guru,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.