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 Romania and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron 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 Delta 5 to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stockholm Monsters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Zapp,
The Busters,
Wally Richardson,
Amon Düül,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skaos,
The Offenders,
AZ,
Deakin,
Harry Pussy,
Mo-Dettes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sun Ra,
Make Up,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eli Mardock,
The Barracudas,
Icehouse,
China Crisis,
Arthur Verocai,
Little Man,
Faust,
Sex Pistols,
Popol Vuh,
Symarip,
Kenny Larkin,
Freddie Wadling,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
X-101,
Prince Buster,
Fugazi,
Gong,
Arcadia,
Bizarre Inc.,
Skriet,
Rufus Thomas,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Roy Ayers,
Agent Orange,
Vainqueur,
The Cure,
The Divine Comedy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pagans,
The Sound,
Rotary Connection,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Brick,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lungfish,
the Normal,
Iggy Pop,
Fluxion,
Excepter,
CMW,
The Knickerbockers,
The Grass Roots,
Section 25,
cv313,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.