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 Italy and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Columbus.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Delon & Dalcan to the dance 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
The Offenders,
Fat Boys,
Kas Product,
Jandek,
James White and The Blacks,
The Shadows of Knight,
Skarface,
Erykah Badu,
Fear,
The Fire Engines,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lalo Schifrin,
Andrew Hill,
Echospace,
Ultra Naté,
The Pop Group,
Crooked Eye,
Terrestrial Tones,
Popol Vuh,
Au Pairs,
Eric Copeland,
Glambeats Corp.,
MC5,
Silicon Teens,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lindisfarne,
Mantronix,
Shoche,
Sexual Harrassment,
Davy DMX,
The Five Americans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Thompson Twins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Bar-Kays,
Maurizio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Angry Samoans,
The Raincoats,
Black Sheep,
Roxette,
Minutemen,
New Order,
Pylon,
Amazonics,
Deepchord,
The Count Five,
Warsaw,
Wolf Eyes,
Albert Ayler,
Harry Pussy,
Lalann,
Flash Fearless,
Black Moon,
Spoonie Gee,
Depeche Mode,
EPMD,
Ossler,
Darondo, Darondo, Darondo, Darondo.
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.