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 Albania and from Halifax.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 guitar 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 Agent Orange to the rap 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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Mojo Men,
The Beau Brummels,
Black Pus,
Mo-Dettes,
Pylon,
Ronnie Foster,
Roxette,
AZ,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Television,
Marc Almond,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Funky Four + One,
Minnie Riperton,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Walker Brothers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Spoonie Gee,
Sandy B,
Crime,
Gang Gang Dance,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Easy Going,
Royal Trux,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
These Immortal Souls,
Nik Kershaw,
The Toasters,
Arthur Verocai,
The Offenders,
Deakin,
The Vogues,
Rotary Connection,
Fear,
Mark Hollis,
Drexciya,
Circle Jerks,
Charles Mingus,
The Slackers,
Magma,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Newcleus,
Babytalk,
the Normal,
ABC,
The Monks,
Joey Negro,
The Monochrome Set,
Aloha Tigers,
Popol Vuh,
Saccharine Trust,
Erykah Badu,
Minor Threat,
Amon Düül II,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Yazoo,
Silicon Teens,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.