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 Fiji and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Girls At Our Best! to the electroclash 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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
John Holt,
Barclay James Harvest,
Big Daddy Kane,
Barrington Levy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soft Machine,
Wire,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fugs,
The Star Department,
Lyres,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Slackers,
David Axelrod,
E-Dancer,
The Seeds,
Warren Ellis,
The Martian,
Vladislav Delay,
La Düsseldorf,
In Retrospect,
The Evens,
Deepchord,
Gabor Szabo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gong,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tomorrow,
Youth Brigade,
ABC,
The Searchers,
Lindisfarne,
the Soft Cell,
Angry Samoans,
Sam Rivers,
James White and The Blacks,
The Slits,
The Young Rascals,
Adolescents,
It's A Beautiful Day,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Audionom,
Q65,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Swell Maps,
The Zeros,
Intrusion,
The Vogues,
the Normal,
Joe Smooth,
Schoolly D,
The Knickerbockers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Reagan Youth,
Gang Gang Dance,
Danielle Patucci,
Rites of Spring,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.