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 Mali and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Robert Görl to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Franke. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Max Romeo,
The Young Rascals,
JFA,
Scientists,
Essential Logic,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Black Pus,
Intrusion,
Aloha Tigers,
Amon Düül,
Charles Mingus,
Hardrive,
cv313,
Soul Sonic Force,
Flash Fearless,
Clear Light,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Knickerbockers,
One Last Wish,
The Black Dice,
Terry Callier,
Carl Craig,
Alice Coltrane,
Toni Rubio,
Television,
Cal Tjader,
Lebanon Hanover,
Radiohead,
Hoover,
Royal Trux,
Ornette Coleman,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eurythmics,
Livin' Joy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Japan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Malaria!,
Nirvana,
Frankie Knuckles,
Idris Muhammad,
Ronan,
Visage,
Arthur Verocai,
CMW,
June of 44,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Names,
Crooked Eye,
Robert Hood,
Dorothy Ashby,
Junior Murvin,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eve St. Jones,
X-Ray Spex,
Marine Girls,
Deepchord,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.