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 Poland and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Dark Day to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
Unrelated Segments,
The Durutti Column,
Gang Gang Dance,
Tommy Roe,
The Seeds,
Gastr Del Sol,
Agitation Free,
Grey Daturas,
Brothers Johnson,
Bronski Beat,
Country Teasers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Alton Ellis,
Eric Dolphy,
Jeff Lynne,
The Litter,
Nico,
Hasil Adkins,
Section 25,
Sam Rivers,
Half Japanese,
Slave,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fire Engines,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cramps,
Al Stewart,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Happenings,
The Gun Club,
Massinfluence,
Sun City Girls,
Vainqueur,
Wolf Eyes,
Ronan,
Andrew Hill,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Smoke,
Eli Mardock,
Cameo,
PIL,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mission of Burma,
Arab on Radar,
Rhythm & Sound,
Carl Craig,
The Fortunes,
Bauhaus,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Fuzztones,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Knickerbockers,
Man Parrish,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Don Cherry,
Tropical Tobacco,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.