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 Uganda and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Philadelphia.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Last Poets to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Crispy Ambulance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jeff Mills,
Oblivians,
Eli Mardock,
Peter and Kerry,
Nas,
The Victims,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sound Behaviour,
Arcadia,
Urselle,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Popol Vuh,
Moby Grape,
Magazine,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Dennis Brown,
LL Cool J,
Hardrive,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Zeros,
The Count Five,
L. Decosne,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Selecter,
Byron Stingily,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Index,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jacques Brel,
Camouflage,
8 Eyed Spy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Funky Four + One,
Ponytail,
Michelle Simonal,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Guru Guru,
The Birthday Party,
Wings,
Massinfluence,
Clear Light,
MDC,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Man Eating Sloth,
Brand Nubian,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ultravox,
The Raincoats,
The Blackbyrds,
The Moleskins,
Robert Görl,
Subhumans,
The Seeds,
Accadde A,
The Buckinghams,
Jawbox,
Lucky Dragons,
Amon Düül,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.