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 Mozambique and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 808 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 The Music Machine to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Reagan Youth,
Sparks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dual Sessions,
The Motions,
The Barracudas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rapeman,
Chris & Cosey,
Reuben Wilson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Flash Fearless,
Amazonics,
The Birthday Party,
The J.B.'s,
The Tremeloes,
The Fugs,
Drive Like Jehu,
Girls At Our Best!,
MC5,
The Slits,
Black Pus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Pylon,
Anthony Braxton,
Bauhaus,
Al Stewart,
Easy Going,
Curtis Mayfield,
Anakelly,
Fugazi,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Carl Craig,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Minnie Riperton,
The Monochrome Set,
Jeff Mills,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gories,
Pole,
Negative Approach,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lightning Bolt,
Quando Quango,
Fat Boys,
Moss Icon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
James White and The Blacks,
Ultravox,
Rekid,
Man Parrish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Leonard Cohen,
Maurizio,
The New Christs,
The Skatalites,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.