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 Brazil and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 spring reverb 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 Lou Reed to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Laurel Aitken. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
The Zeros,
Marine Girls,
Reagan Youth,
The Human League,
La Düsseldorf,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Monochrome Set,
Eric Copeland,
48th St. Collective,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sonic Youth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Zapp,
The Angels of Light,
Nils Olav,
Tubeway Army,
The Modern Lovers,
The Slits,
The Residents,
OOIOO,
The Selecter,
Siglo XX,
Bronski Beat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Scientists,
Radio Birdman,
Alison Limerick,
Tim Buckley,
Boredoms,
Bill Wells,
Silicon Teens,
Flash Fearless,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Janne Schatter,
The Black Dice,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Busters,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
B.T. Express,
Dawn Penn,
Royal Trux,
Morten Harket,
The Toasters,
Angry Samoans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
F. McDonald,
Surgeon,
Los Fastidios,
Pharoah Sanders,
Urselle,
Skaos,
Lou Christie,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.