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 United States and from Beijing.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Glasgow.
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 linndrum 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 Janne Schatter to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agent Orange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Litter,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Germs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Vainqueur,
Goldenarms,
One Last Wish,
Gang Green,
China Crisis,
Barry Ungar,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Knickerbockers,
Tomorrow,
The Five Americans,
Swell Maps,
Flash Fearless,
Eyeless In Gaza,
In Retrospect,
Skarface,
Rufus Thomas,
Yazoo,
Deakin,
Agitation Free,
Fad Gadget,
Easy Going,
Wings,
Fat Boys,
The Red Krayola,
Crash Course in Science,
The J.B.'s,
Lou Christie,
Pierre Henry,
The Names,
Model 500,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Deepchord,
Black Moon,
John Cale,
Schoolly D,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Masters at Work,
Pole,
Colin Newman,
Susan Cadogan,
10cc,
Newcleus,
The New Christs,
New York Dolls,
The Human League,
Bluetip,
kango's stein massive,
Joensuu 1685,
Dave Gahan,
Toni Rubio,
Jandek,
Thompson Twins,
Sparks,
the Soft Cell,
Subhumans,
Brand Nubian,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.