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 Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bronski Beat,
Flash Fearless,
Gichy Dan,
Subhumans,
Fat Boys,
The Pop Group,
Crispy Ambulance,
Harpers Bizarre,
Brass Construction,
Terrestrial Tones,
Motorama,
Q and Not U,
Andrew Hill,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Country Teasers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Altered Images,
Masters at Work,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
James Chance & The Contortions,
David McCallum,
Absolute Body Control,
Visage,
JFA,
48th St. Collective,
Robert Hood,
Mary Jane Girls,
Faust,
The Young Rascals,
Swans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
E-Dancer,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Sound,
The Black Dice,
Maurizio,
The Music Machine,
Jawbox,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Warren Ellis,
Grauzone,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Archie Shepp,
Charles Mingus,
The Golliwogs,
Todd Rundgren,
Cymande,
Boz Scaggs,
Hoover,
Symarip,
F. McDonald,
Henry Cow,
Wasted Youth,
The Angels of Light,
Public Image Ltd.,
R.M.O.,
Ice-T,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
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.