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 Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Holger Czukay 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the disco 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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tim Buckley,
Inner City,
Wolf Eyes,
ABC,
the Sonics,
Soulsonic Force,
Simply Red,
The Monochrome Set,
Deakin,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Althea and Donna,
Radiopuhelimet,
Anakelly,
Joensuu 1685,
Blossom Toes,
Faust,
The Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Loose Ends,
Talk Talk,
Blancmange,
Wally Richardson,
Sandy B,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Golliwogs,
Reagan Youth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Stooges,
Spoonie Gee,
DJ Style,
Alton Ellis,
Warren Ellis,
Pussy Galore,
X-101,
Delon & Dalcan,
Massinfluence,
Funkadelic,
Zero Boys,
Laurel Aitken,
Chrome,
Matthew Bourne,
Bush Tetras,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pulsallama,
Arcadia,
OOIOO,
KRS-One,
The Fugs,
Franke,
Hasil Adkins,
Au Pairs,
Alphaville,
Mad Mike,
Von Mondo,
Visage,
The Cowsills,
Cheater Slicks,
Graham Central Station,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.